What an interesting turn for those sanctions that are really supposed to be biting by now. You, know, because they take so long to kick in an all. But instead, the IMF has more than doubled its previous forecast.

Oh, but the IMF just takes whatever each government says as gospel and repeats it, right? They don’t do any of their own research, right? What’s the IMF anyway? What do they know about economics?

https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/...nuary-2024

https://www.rt.com/business/591592-russi...k-kremlin/

I’m sure they didn’t fully consider implications of the brief egg shortage in Kazan Oblast