{"id":40285,"date":"2024-11-21T13:16:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T19:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=40285"},"modified":"2024-11-27T19:32:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T01:32:54","slug":"the-buttery-ruble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=40285","title":{"rendered":"The Buttery Ruble"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ruble to Rubble<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Earlier today….
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A few hours later….
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Peering into the future….
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Wednesday, November 27, 2024
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Later the same day (11\/27\/24)
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Russia\u2019s Central Bank set the ruble\u2019s official exchange rate at over 100 to the dollar for Wednesday, marking the first time the currency has slipped pass the symbolic threshold in more than a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wednesday\u2019s rate, pegged at 100.03 rubles per dollar, reflects a nearly 19% devaluation since Ukraine\u2019s surprise incursion into Russia\u2019s Kursk region on Aug. 6. The ruble\u2019s latest drop follows President Vladimir Putin’s decision to lower Moscow\u2019s nuclear strike threshold after the U.S. gave Kyiv permission to fire long-range missiles at targets inside Russia.<\/p>\nThe Moscow Times<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Butter Behind Locked Doors<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Inflation is being driven by the rapid rise in wages as the Kremlin pours billions into military industries and sends millions of men to fight in Ukraine. In the middle of a war, companies outside the defense sector can\u2019t compete for workers without paying much higher wages. In turn, they charge higher prices. So the spiral continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WLBOTT Responds to the Russian Butter Crisis<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

To respond to this crisis, WLBOTT <\/strong>is introducing to the Russian market a delicious blend of cotton-seed and 10W-40 motor oil spread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Putin’s Tone-Deaf Response<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Putin’s comment, “\u041f\u0443\u0441\u0442\u044c \u0435\u0434\u044f\u0442 \u043c\u0430\u0441\u043b\u043e”<\/strong> (let them eat butter) did him no favors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There have been some incidences of organized butter theft….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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…. requiring the protection of the 2nd<\/sup> best army in Russia….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ruble to Rubble Earlier today…. A few hours later…. And just as we go to press…. Peering into the future…. Wednesday, November 27, 2024 Later the same day (11\/27\/24) Butter Behind Locked Doors WLBOTT Responds to the Russian Butter Crisis To respond to this crisis, WLBOTT is introducing to the Russian market a delicious blend […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,19,43,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-food","category-heros-not","category-russia"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40285"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40666,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40285\/revisions\/40666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}