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Tag Archives: ruble
LinkSwarm for December 5, 2025
Following hot on the heels of Thanksgiving travel and the final push to put out a new Lame Excuse Books catalog next week, this is going to be a somewhat briefer LinkSwarm. This week: The Supreme Court greenlights the Texas … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Border Control, Budget, Communism, Crime, Democrats, Elections, Foreign Policy, Guns, Media Watch, Military, Regulation, Social Justice Warriors, Supreme Court, Texas, Waste and Fraud, Welfare State
Tagged 2026 Election, 21st Century Fox, ABC, Adam Savage, AI, Alex Soros, American Greatness, Anthropic, astronomy, auctions, Austin, Babylon Bee, BeardMeatsFood, Black Sea, bomb, Brian J. Cole Jr., Budget, Bugatti, Caleb Elliott, Canada, Cats (2019), Celina ISD, Chechnya, Christmas, Clarence Thomas, Communism, Congressional Budget Office, Congressional Medal of Honor, Cory Booker, Dan Patrick, David Williams, dogs, Doug Ford, drones, Dublin, Easley v. Cromartie, Ed Bolian, Elena Kagan, Estonia, Facebook, Flock AI cameras, food, Foreign Policy, Fox News, Frank Gehry, FSB, Germany, Greg Gutfeld, Guns, Honest Trailer, Ireland, James Earl Jones, Japan, Jeff Abell, Jeremy Clarkson, Jimmy Kimmel, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Kickstarter, Krasnodar, layoffs, LinkSwarm, Maryland, Media Watch, Michael Dell, Military, Minnesota, missile strike, Moody Center, movies, NBC, Neil Gorsuch, NGO, nuclear weapons, Obituary, Ontario, OpenAI, Oryol, pardon, pedophilia, Pickup Truck, Quintin Tarantino, Red Letter Media, Redistricting, Regulation, ruble, Russia, Russo-Ukrainian War, Samuel Alito, science, Sean Duffy, Senegal, Seth Meyers, sex offender, Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Colbert, Suchomimus, Supreme Court, Ted Cruz, Ted Sarandos, Temryuk gas terminal, Texas, Texas Scorecard, The Texan News, Tim Walz, Timothy Leiweke, Trump Accounts, Turkey, TV, Volodymyr Zelensky, war crimes, Welfare State, Wes Moore, World War II
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What Is Maintaining The Ruble-USD Band?
I’m hardly an expert in foreign currency exchange, but something odd seems to be happening in the Russian Ruble-U.S. Dollar exchange rate. Obviously, the ruble has lost value because of the extensive sanctions and cutoff from SWIFT following Russia’s launch … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Foreign Policy
Tagged China, currency, Economics, Euro, foreign currency, India, Pound Sterling, ruble, Russia, Russo-Ukrainian War
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How Bad Off Is The Russian Ruble?
An important but less dramatic aspect of the Russo-Ukrainian War is just what effects the war and resulting sanctions are having on the Russian economy. It’s hard for outsiders to get a handle on just how badly the Russian economy … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Military, video
Tagged Economics, foreign currency, Foreign Policy, interest rates, Joe Blogs, Military, ruble, Russia, Russo-Ukrainian War, Ukraine, video
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LinkSwarm for October 6, 2023
The job search continues, Buddy is healing nicely from his surgery, and we’ve finally gotten some decent cool weather. This week: More Biden border follies, social justice types getting stabbed by reality, and a double dose of doggy goodness. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Border Control, Democrats, Regulation, Social Justice Warriors, Supreme Court, Texas
Tagged 2024 Election, 2024 Presidential Race, Alejandro Mayorkas, Andrew Murr, Angel Almeida, Border Controls, Crime, Dade Phelan, David Covey, Democrats, DHS, Dianne Feinstein, dogs, Elections, F-16, FBI, Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, Henry Cuellar, Illegal Aliens, Japan, Josh Kruger, Ken Paxton, LinkSwarm, Media Watch, Military, Mogadishu, New York City, pedophilia, Philadelphia, ruble, Russo-Ukrainian War, Ryan Carson, San Francisco, Shellyne Rodriguez, Social Justice Warriors, Somalia, Starbucks, Starr County, Syria, Texas, Tren de Aragua, Turkey, Venezuela, Wes Virdell
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Ruble Now A Penny
When Russia launched its illegal war of territorial aggression against Ukraine in February of 2022, many observers thought western financial sanctions would quickly crash the Russian economy. When Russia was cut out of SWIFT, the Ruble plunged to below a … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Foreign Policy
Tagged Economics, foreign currency, ruble, Russia, Russo-Ukrainian War, sanctions, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin
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