The top left purple arrow is where their Q4 goal is
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They placed half a square’s worth
On Q4 Auction Day 2 of 13
The offer of PK-29024 failed/was declared invalid
PK-29025:
Placement: 0.005 Trillion
Demand: 0.0441 Trillion
And they just told everyone that this plan…that is clearly failing…will somehow work in 2025 and beyond, when they try to borrow even higher sums of money
I’ve written on this topic multiple times, and each time, things have gotten worse.
Things had stabilized for some time before this announcement.
So what was the rule before now?
Business were required to sell their assets for AT LEAST a 50% discount of the value of the asset THEN pay 15% of the ASSETS VALUE as an exit tax directly to the federal government.
That meant that the BEST you could hope to leave with was
Here’s a rough idea of where Russia is after 3 Quarters + 1 Q4 Auction Day out of 13.
How they think they’ll meet these goals through normal lending is mind boggling.
And then they tell you they’ll borrow more in 2025 😵💫
The purple arrows are the goals as stated per quarter from the Ministry of Finance. What they actually need is up in the air. It may be more than this 🤔
Remember we can the goal at the top of the old chart from the Amended Budget, and now they’re sneaking in a 3rd budget for 2024 right now
If you ever see footage of Putin having a meeting with a region head, one of the things I’ve seen Putin critique them on, is their birth rate.
The government knows that there actually things they could do to help increase it. But that takes money.
If you actually investigate, you see that the government is making no meaningful efforts to increase the birth rate. In fact, many of these indicators are getting worse.
Things like
- Healthcare
- Access to affordable housing
- Investments in schools
- etc
Brief (hopefully) Update on the Russian Federal OFZ Bonds
I think this is going to be the final values for Q3, but I am waiting on one more report before I make a final confirmation. The reasons for the vagueness have to do with the Russian Min. of Finance 🙄
Chart = millions
In addition the reporting coming out of Russia on this hasn’t been great either. I haven’t added the new placements for that happened this week to chart yet, but i did already post what those were.
I’m going to focus on just this for right now.
So let’s talk about goals. Here are the goals that the Russian Ministry of Finance has missed (chart is in millions)
Q2: 1 Trillion Rubles during Q2
Q3: 1.5 Trillion Rubles during Q3
The new stated goal is to place 2.4 Trillion Rubles in Q4