Russia’s strong currency puzzles economists, signals economic woes

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1. im a not a economist but currency is strong untill you can back it up with gold, when that moment runs out you just print worthless paper with a lot of zeros.
   Eventually, very soon…every russian will become a billionaire, Zimbabwe style.

2. It always amazes me how the vast majority of the population simply don’t understand what strong/weak exchange rates mean and can’t look beyond ‘strong’ = good and ‘weak’ = bad, as that’s what they take those words to mean in a literal sense.

   There’s no right answer as to whether a country wants a weak or strong currency, especially as there are always pros and cons to both and the equation always changes for every individual country.

3. Strong Ruble, Rupee & RMB or weak USD, Euro and Yen?

   Methinks they are obviously not seeing the big picture and how [dedollarisation has already begun.](https://www.cfasociety.org/portugal/blogs/joao-mastbaum/2025/12/10/global-de-dollarization-myth-or-megatrend)

4. When the ruble fell against the dollar, the same newspaper wrote that is a sign that the Russian economy is weak and falling apart. When the ruble-dollar exchange rate strengthened, the same newspaper writes that it is a sign that the Russian economy is weak and falling apart.

   In general, almost any articles from Kiev publishers are more an object for monitoring the copium than a source of information.

5. It’s almost like the 6 months till Russias collapse we’ve been flooded with for the last 3 years is apart of war propaganda.

   Much of the West loves to point out propaganda but rarely are willing to accept the same for themsleves.

6. As someone who doesn’t like the government of Russia or China, my opinion is to ignore every prediction about future woes. How many articles like that have we read over the years? Wake me up when the poop hits the fans.

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