The solution is to beat all credit to death. Great work everyone, pub?

Am a finance student from Russia.

12% is fine. It’s a temporary measure to keep the currency at bay. It’s not great, don’t get me wrong, I’d much rather it was at 4-5% as it was in 2020, but it’s appropriate given what’s happenning with the country.

In comparison, on February 2022 it was 20%, which in simple terms saved the banking system from collapsing, our Cenral Bank is one of not that many agencies that are at least compitent.

It does slow down the economic growth, but trust me, there are way bigger problems than expensive credit when it comes to economic growth. Short-term everything is quite well, but long-term if nothing changes? Oh boy, oh boy.

I don’t follow the subject in Russian terms (the US/UK are already confusing to me) but it’s interesting to hear what other countries find normal and tolerable. I think it’d be raining men in wall street if we saw rates that high.

Last time the US had rates at a comparable level was during Volcker’s term at the Fed in the early 80s. It did successfully bring down some crazy inflation.

That said there’s been 15 years of easy money following the 08 disaster and it definitely wouldn’t be pleasant to have such rates now. Businesses and as such the broader economy are built around assumptions that things will stay more or less in familiar territory