*- Will the dollar collapse? In just a matter of months — you could count on one hand the time left before this dollar bubble bursts. And I don’t know what else could be inflated after the dollar bubble pops. Nothing else*. February 26, 2009. An economist, Channel One commentator, and editor-in-chief of Profile magazine told Komsomolskaya Pravda why the center of the crisis is in the United States, and when and how the global financial storm will end.
Funny, isn’t it? Four years have passed. The dollar is worth 35 rubles today and has set a new growth record. The perpetually drunk, witless propaganda stooge Mikhail Leontyev is now not only an "economist and Channel One commentator," but has also landed a job at the state-owned oil company Rosneft for a very large salary.
The incompetent bureaucratic marvel who got him that job — Sechin — has turned himself into a state oligarch and promptly set his own salary at 138 million rubles a month. The ex-wife of this bureaucratic marvel is rapidly becoming a billionaire on the back of state contracts and even made money off Olympic volunteers. Russia’s 146 million citizens will become a little poorer still — thanks to the rule of incompetent stooges and thieves, they mostly buy imported goods, which will become more expensive as the dollar rises. There’s something deeply wrong about all this.