Sensation from Siluanov: the ruble rate was strongly understated as much as 15 rubles. What for?

Commendable candor! Minister of Finance Siluanov frankly admitted that "if there was no budget rule, the dollar would now be worth 50 rubles." What explains the country's chief financier an artificial understatement of the national currency rate?

It turns out that if the rate had suddenly dropped by almost 15 rubles, then there would be "volatility" -that is, some fluctuations in the rate, speaking in the avian language of our economists forever cut off from life. "And such volatility, such unpredictability, of course, strikes entrepreneurs."

That is, everything is done for the benefit of our entrepreneurs. And we know the names of these entrepreneurs: Sechin, Miller, Deripaska, Lisin, Usmanov ...

Undervaluation of the ruble is beneficial primarily to our exporters, Rosneft, Rusal and Gazprom, who are in debt as in silks, since the lion's share of their profits goes to different offshore, and not invested in development. Therefore, they would very much like to reduce their operating costs, which occur in rubles.

And this - taxes, wages, the purchase of all domestic parts and supplies. The ruble is cheaper - the cost of production is lower, the profit that goes to the elite yachts, planes, foreign palaces, adulterers with the very expensive birds and fishes is becoming higher. And everyone understands this.
It is unclear what could be the result of such violence over the market rate of the ruble.

The Russian economic power rushes from the extreme to the extreme. In the late 90s and early 2000s, our regulator kept the ruble rate artificially high, in the "national corridor" - and now, on the contrary, the exchange rate understates all the forces.
One of the consequences of this economic policy is already evident - the soaring prices for gasoline. After all, with an undervalued ruble, the petrol kings will somehow uplift domestic prices for fuel, so that they do not lag far behind the world. These ghouls can be shot for this - but in the current economic practice, when with the connivance of state structures taxis one private profit, these ghouls will not come out of their capital schemes. Like our government, from our own.

Now the appetites of these benzokoroly little kept, but very few people believe that for a long time.

Well, and there goes further, along the chain - the appreciation of aviation kerosene, the appreciation of all traffic, the next round of the rise in price of imports ...

And it's even strange that the main outrage now focuses on raising the retirement age, which, after all, whatever it takes, will happen - but sometime later. Meanwhile, the "budget rule", voiced by Siluanov, the rubbling ruble, as well as the VAT increase - directly accelerate the impoverishment of the population right now.

 


Source: publizist.ru