Segments From This Episode

• How will Biden’s additional sanctions affect the Russian economy?

  by Kai Ryssdal and Richard Cunningham

  

  “So long as Putin continues to be president of Russia, Russia will not be able to benefit from the global economy,” said the Atlantic Council’s Eddie Fishman.

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• Why it’s tough to wean the West off Russian oil and gas

  by Andy Uhler

  

  For 15 years the EU has been talking about decreasing its dependence on Russia’s gas and oil, but it didn’t do it intime.

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• "Every central banker's worst nightmare"

  As Russia invades Ukraine, there’s a strong possibility that economic growth can sharply slow down while prices keep on growing. We hear from Harvard’s Megan Greene about “stagflation” and the war’s influence on the global economy.

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• Higher prices, more risk: How Russia’s war on Ukraine is likely to affect the global economy

  by Mitchell Hartman

  

  The invasion has introduced a lot of unknowns for global trade, financial markets and national economies. It’s also a blow to the pandemic recovery.

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• Russia’s economic isolation has a long history

  by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst

  

  Once again, a professor of Russian history says, ordinary Russians will be “the ones who shoulder the daily burden.”

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