Russia’s war economy is not collapsing, but neither is it stable. It survives by pushing strain into the future – into labour ...
Three and a half years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, with a US-led peace process on ice and a stalemate on the battlefield, Kyiv’s allies are calling for renewed economic pressure on ...
The Russian economy has been dealing with growing headwinds this year: unruly inflation, a ballooning budget deficit and shrinking energy revenues. But analysts say the Kremlin could weather the storm ...
Oil prices climbed over 4% on Tuesday as the Iran-Israel conflict raged with no end in sight, with Brent crude futures reaching a six-month high of $74/bbl. This latest spike underscores a fundamental ...
One beauty of economics — the study of how human beings use scarce resources — is that its basic principles apply to life even if money is not involved. Opportunity cost, externalities, sunk costs, ...