{"id":7177,"date":"2015-04-09T06:54:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T11:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7177"},"modified":"2015-04-09T06:54:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T11:54:00","slug":"russias-central-bank-governor-is-way-smarter-than-ours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7177","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s Central Bank Governor Is Way Smarter Than Ours"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia\u2019s Central Bank Governor Is Way Smarter Than Ours<\/a><\/h3>\n

It wouldn\u2019t be a first, but it would certainly be a \u2013 bigger \u2013 shock. That is to say, the Bank of England hijacked the head of Canada\u2019s central bank some time ago, but, while unexpected enough, that would pale in comparison to the US hiring the present Governor of the Russian central bank, Elvira Sakhipzadovna Nabiullina. It would still seem to be a mighty fine idea, though.<\/p>\n

Not that I think it will happen, not to worry if you think Yellen is just what it takes at the Fed. But Nabiullina is both razor sharp and fiercely independent. Yellen is obviously neither; she\u2019s a cog in a machine that huffs and puffs and pumps and dumps to make sure her overlords in the blissful world of US finance make ever more profit no matter how bad things get in American society.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no need to be particularly sharp in order to play that role, and she was picked exactly because she\u2019s NOT independent. Or let\u2019s just say she\u2019s a good listener.<\/p>\n

Nabiullina is a whole different story. Not that I have much confidence in western readers understanding that this is so, let alone why. Not after the 24\/7 highly public media campaigns and sanctions and oil price wars and Ukraine war talk and chest thumping directed at Putin and Russia, and after everything else that we don\u2019t even know that plays out behind the veils.<\/p>\n

Enjoy your conspiracies while you can, I\u2019d say. Because despite more than a year of intense efforts to make Russia look like the empire of unspoken evil, financial markets, yes, the same ones Yellen manipulates at her lords\u2019 bidding, have now made the Russian ruble and the Moscow stock exchange the biggest winners so far this year.<\/p>\n

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Russia\u2019s Central Bank Governor Is Way Smarter Than Ours It wouldn\u2019t be a first, but it would certainly be a \u2013 bigger \u2013 shock. That is to say, the Bank of England hijacked the head of Canada\u2019s central bank some time ago, but, while unexpected enough, that would pale in comparison to the US hiring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4693,4694,303,305,451,694,695,857],"class_list":["post-7177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-central-bank-governor","tag-elvira-nabiullina","tag-fed","tag-federal-reserve","tag-janet-yellen","tag-russia","tag-russian-central-bank","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7178,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177\/revisions\/7178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}