More on why Russia's rapidly growing corporate credit and bank deposits point to growing hidden weakness that Ukraine supporters ought to be exploiting. Europe needs to step up sanctions and arms production, while Americans need to prepare to defend Biden's sanctions from Trump.

This hints at the big division over economic policy among contemporary fascists. Elon favors small government, fitting with his position as a private business owner. Trump so far has been a traditional fascist, favoring big government and bullying business to ensure loyalty, much like Hitler hid.

Musk takes another step towards coming out as a straight-up Nazi.

What's big about this ruble drop is that it's happening much faster than even high ruble interest rates accumulate. This incentivizes redollarization of savings to preserve value. If Russians ditch en masse their ruble savings, the inflation rate will massively accelerate.

Well we're ten episodes in to this new reality TV version of Idiocracy and I still don't find any of it the least bit funny.