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0:00 Three Ordinary Lives and a Broken Economy
0:45 The Plumber’s Paradox
1:46 The Farmer’s Silent Crisis
3:08 The Businessman’s Conundrum
6:58 The Economic Disease of a Nation
13:37 Understanding Dutch Disease
26:07 The Illusion of Artificial Cash
Russia’s economy has Dutch Disease – and because of the war in Ukraine, it looks like it’s now become terminal.
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