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Russia is the world’s top wheat exporter while Ukraine is in the top 5 exporters

Posted on 2022/03/15 by Carl Robitaille

🇷🇺Russia is the world's top wheat exporter while 🇺🇦Ukraine is in the top 5 exporters

My map shows wheat imports from these two countries in Europe in 2020, according to UN Comtrade data. #wheat #food #RussianUkrainianWar #Russia #Ukraine #dataviz #rstats #maps pic.twitter.com/Iz4bSa8sQX
— Milos Popovic (@milos_agathon) March 5, 2022

Biggest weekly increase in commodity prices on record

Posted on 2022/03/15 by Carl Robitaille

Biggest weekly increase in commodity prices on record pic.twitter.com/MD36BXDshR
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) March 5, 2022

Prix de l’essence

Posted on 2022/03/15 by Carl Robitaille

Prix de l’essence

Prix de l’essence #polqc #polcan https://t.co/PasrOIxgIt
— ygreck (@ygreck) March 4, 2022

Take me somewhere expensive

Posted on 2022/03/15 by Carl Robitaille

J'ai ri… https://t.co/PN2dy0PZCd
— Luc Dupont (@LucDupont) March 4, 2022

Comparing the Russia Sanctions

Posted on 2022/03/15 by Carl Robitaille

Comparing the #RussiaSanctions (from Bloomberg) pic.twitter.com/qmCtZ2nUr8
— Dave Keating (@DaveKeating) March 4, 2022

The implied poor Russian Army truck maintenance practices

Posted on 2022/03/15 by Carl Robitaille

This is a thread that will explain the implied poor Russian Army truck maintenance practices based on this photo of a Pantsir-S1 wheeled gun-missile system's right rear pair of tires below & the operational implications during the Ukrainian mud season.🧵

1/ pic.twitter.com/LmxW43v6gy
— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) March 2, 2022

Russian business television gets an analyst on to discuss the cratering Russian stock market

Posted on 2022/03/15 by Carl Robitaille

With English subtitles:https://t.co/dNsMKaVl31
— Raf Sanchez (@rafsanchez) March 3, 2022

This thread, about the absolute ruin that awaits the Russian economy, is absolutely terrifying. (Worth a Google Translate)

Posted on 2022/03/11 by Carl Robitaille

This thread, about the absolute ruin that awaits the Russian economy, is absolutely terrifying. (Worth a Google Translate) https://t.co/Im6jxyWoxU
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) March 2, 2022

Since the invasion of Ukraine began, the scale and rapidity of geopolitical shifts have been astonishing

Posted on 2022/03/11 by Carl Robitaille

Since the invasion began, the scale and rapidity of geopolitical shifts have been astonishing. Already:
— Richard Fontaine (@RHFontaine) February 28, 2022

The yield on this Russian external bond has exploded reflecting a higher probability of non-payment by the government

Posted on 2022/03/11 by Carl Robitaille

With dollar prices plummeting to the 40s, the yield on this Russian external bond has exploded reflecting a higher probability of non-payment by the government.
Yet even this elevated level doesn't capture fully the significant increase in the risk of default to creditors. pic.twitter.com/dCP8i7Uk4L
— Mohamed A. El-Erian (@elerianm) March 1, 2022