By Yvonne Lau
<Over the past six months, Russia has fortified its economic defenses after Western countries pummeled it with sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine.

Despite the crackdown, the Kremlin continues to rake in billions in oil and gas revenues, which helped the ruble rally to become the world’s best-performing currency this year.

But all is not well with the Russian economy.

The Western sanctions and widespread corporate exodus from Russia since Feb. 24 have ravaged the Russian economy—and its future prospects look even bleaker, according to a new report from Yale University researchers and economists led by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Yale School of Management professor and senior associate dean for leadership studies. It’s now become clear that the Kremlin’s “finances are in much, much more dire straits than conventionally understood” and that the large-scale “business retreats and sanctions are catastrophically crippling the Russian economy,” the researchers wrote. Deterioration

As of Aug. 4, over 1,000 companies, including U.S. firms like Nike, IBM, and Bain consulting, have curtailed their operations in Russia. Though some businesses have stayed, the mass corporate exodus represents 40% of Russia’s GDP and reverses 30 years’ worth of foreign investment, says the Yale report.

The international retreat is morphing into a larger crisis for the country: a collapse in foreign imports and investments.

Russia has descended into a technological crisis as a result of its isolation from the global economy. It’s having trouble securing critical technology and parts. “The domestic economy is largely reliant on imports across industries…with few exceptions,” says the report. Western export controls have largely halted the flow of imported technology from smartphones to data servers and networking equipment, straining its tech industry. Russia’s biggest internet company, Yandex—the country’s version of Google—is running short of the semiconductor chips it needs for its servers.

At the same time, Russia’s “domestic production has come to a complete standstill—with no capacity to replace lost businesses, products, and talent,” the Yale report said. Russian producers and manufacturers are unable to fill the gaps left by the collapse of Western imports.>

LOLS!

Where's <Mort>?

It's not that it breaks any of the Seven Commandments, it's just that he doesn't want to tolerate the opposing political and religious viewpoints, and as a moderator, he is going to use his position of power on this website to censor people like me who speak against homos, sodomites and other perverts.

<Steve> doesn't pretend that this is not the case. That is, he is upfront and unashamed of the fact that he is using his position as moderator to silence those people who he disagrees with.

<Steve> has also come up with a new rule that everyone should be aware of:

1. No criticizing ANYTHING he does - ever - or else you will be suspended and or banned. No matter how constructive the criticism, please take note, it will be labeled, "degrading the staff" and you'll be sent to Siberia.

2. No criticizing sodomy. It's no longer allowed on <CG>. As of today, <CG> is loudly and proudly PRO SODOMY and any Christian thoughts that come against it will not be tolerated by the Beautiful People.

One must understand that sodomy is the <central focus> of the libs.

To better understand the New <CG>, with <Steve> in charge, try to think of it as an extremely woke college campus where we refer to women as Birthing Persons and so forth.

Also, like many woke college campuses, Christians and conservatives are shouted down and not allowed to speak freely.

The attitude of the admin is this: "Yeah, that's about right...so what are you gonna do about it?"

Truly, the libs get to celebrate as they've beat down <Susan>, wore her out, and now she has given up completely on the free speech aspect of this website.

I mean completely given up! She has rolled over.

You see, <nok> and <zanzibar> and <rbd> trolled the support forum constantly and insulted the owner of the site nearly every day. Little did they know, <steve> is of the same politics as they are, so, on the inside, <steve> was able to talk <susan> into giving him more POWER, and now, well, it's like having <nok> in charge.

So take a bow, libs. You knew you'd break the old lady down, and you did.

Now about sock accounts, well, they might be necessary now that tyranny and censorship is back in power here at <CG>.

I have a contractor from Bangladesh who screwed up a job I put him on. He wants to get more gigs from me, but he's in the dog house. I wouldn't even have to pay him anything, not a dime, for him to use a VPN and create 1000 accounts over the next year, every day, a few here and there. All I have to do is make it an addon to the next job and he'll do it for free.

Different IP addresses every time (down to the Class C IP), different locations, different emails - very easy.

Just sayin', it will take me ZERO time to adjust if I have to, or if I want to.

The point is this:

You can brag that you will accidentally delete tens of thousands of Rogoff pages "by accident while merging" and then delete tens of thousands of Rogoff pages "by accident while merging" and <Susan> and <Steve> will call you a hero and kiss your ass.

But you absolutely CANNOT say any not-positive about sodomy. It's not allowed on this website.

On <CG>, if there is any talk of sodomy, homos, drag queen story hour, or any other such stuff, it must be positive, glowing talk.

Example:

Why yes, as a progressive liberal, I think it's a great idea to force little children to spend QUALITY TIME with drag queens. It's good for their development because maybe a significant number of them will grow up to be drag queens too.

That is the new <Elite Posting> and it is <Steve> approved.

When posting on politics, religion, society or culture on the Rogoff page, you must remember your priorities. Such posts must be made with the proper framework in mind:

Will <Steve> approve of this post?

If the answer is yes, then you can post it, and you should. But if the answer is no, then you should not post it, because the main thing is to please <Steve>.

It's very important.

He made it clear that if he is displeased, he will suspend you. It's kind of like Hitler, except there are no ovens involved. Well, close enough.

Take your deletions like a man.

< A machine-learning algorithm predicts that more than half of the thousands of species whose conservation status has yet to be assessed are probably in danger of disappearing for good >

Alleluia
Mt 24;42a, 44

R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Stay awake and be ready!
For you do not know on what day your Lord will come. R. Alleluia, alleluia.

Lk 12:35-40

The job numbers are tremendous right now.