Hey-hey hooray-hooray I completely forgot! It’s time to announce the results of the super contest! Whoever correctly predicts the U.S. dollar-to-ruble exchange rate. The contest was held from December 30 to 31, 2008. At, so to speak, the most dramatic moments of the devaluation. The task was to predict the dollar-to-ruble rate for after the May holidays. There were plenty of apocalyptic forecasts back then. I myself guessed 43.25 rubles per $1. Under the rules, the reference date was declared to be May 12. But since the rate for the 12th was set by the Central Bank before the second May holiday period (on the 8th), for the sake of a clean experiment, and based on the principles of reasonableness and fairness (which I possess), I used the rate for May 13, which the Central Bank set on the 12th. 32 rubles 28 kopecks per one U.S. dollar. And so. The people who predict (or guess, which is also not bad) better than all of us: Fifth place: 32.78 User vizard http://navalny.livejournal.com/346980.html?thread=6028132#t6028132 Fourth place: 32.43 and 32.13 Users ya_ponchik http://navalny.livejournal.com/346980.html?thread=6025316#t6025316 and notacat http://navalny.livejournal.com/346980.html?thread=6023780#t6023780 Third place: 32.15 User mr_dilettante http://navalny.livejournal.com/346980.html?thread=6014564#t6014564 Second place: 32.22 User dp99 http://navalny.livejournal.com/346980.html?thread=6069604#t6069604 And first place: 32.32 The Oscar goes to a bottle of JW Gold Label whisky
goes to the brilliant and farsighted user dynamite_dan http://navalny.livejournal.com/346980.html?thread=6051172#t6051172 (long, sustained applause, shouts of “Send him to the Central Bank!”) Thanks to all the other contest participants... you’re losers... just like me. Congratulations to the winner, and please get in touch with me to collect your prize.
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