Russia Prepares To Short $18 Billion

Voltron says: Usually banana republics are unable to raise money in their home currency and are "forced" to denominate their bonds in other currencies such as the US dollar. In this case it would seem that Russia is issuing debt in dollars not because they have to, but because they can . . . they will benefit from low interest rates and any crash in the dollar. Which would give them every reason to engineer a crash of the dollar. Imagine if China did this!

http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-preparing-to-short-eighteen-billion-dollars-2009-10