Correspondent & Host
Sabri is a correspondent and host for Marketplace based in New York City. He has many, many plants.
They’re valuable in part because the palladium inside is expensive. And Russia provides much of the world’s palladium.
“The long-term implications are severe,” one expert says, and can scare away foreign investors.
Their fates and fortunes are tied closely to Vladimir Putin’s.
The ruble is a free-floating currency whose value tracks supply and demand. But sanctions have demolished demand and wrecked the market.
Heather Vogell of ProPublica finds short term-oriented corporate investors are increasingly becoming apartment landlords.
Ukraine had encountered cyberattacks to its infrastructure in the weeks leading up to the invasion.
“It’s hard to do anything that doesn’t end up hurting us more than it hurts them,” says New York Times columnist Paul Krugman.
The two countries canceled 44 flights, tit-for-tat style, in January. But few people are flying between the U.S. and China anyway.
When conditions leading to inflation ease, don’t get your hopes up that prices will go the other way.
The number of proposed solar projects has spiked as costs have declined, but the transmission system can’t accommodate them.
