Could Russia's Wartime Debt Boom Trigger a Banking Crisis? - The Moscow Times
Could Russia's Wartime Debt Boom Trigger a Banking Crisis? - The Moscow Times
Source: The Moscow Times
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DW NOTE
Russia is running a wartime economy on borrowed money while sanctioned off from global capital markets. The question isn't whether that ends in a banking crisis — it's whether the state lets it happen or nationalises the losses first. Moscow has form: it will print before it defaults domestically.