Stephanie Baker | Oligarchs, Sanctions & The Global Economic War With Russia

Stephanie Baker is a journalist whose been writing between the intersection of business and politics for almost 30 years with Bloomberg.  Stephanie"s just published her first book and it is just amazing and the consequence of covering these topics for a lifetime. The network, the knowledge, the weird language of sanctions of financial opacity.  It’s a book about the global economic war with Russia post Ukrainian invasion. The fallout of the sanctions, why it has and hasn’t crippled the Russian economy as intended, and everything in and around Russian capital flight, Russian sanctions and the global economic war underwriting Russia"s physical threat.  We start with Stephanies experience covering Russia from Moscow in the 90s, her stumbling across a murder scene and then between that and the book, Stephanie working as Christopher Hitchens fact checker at The Nation, the details behind putting a book like this together then the details about western businesses who withdrew substantial Russian operations, the oil markets chicanery to skirt sanctions, Oligarchs, Minigarchs, Euroclear and frozen Russian capital, what the sanctions did where they"ve been effective and where they haven’t and a whole lot more. Subscribe To The Curious Worldview Newsletter Stephanie Baker - Punishing Putin Episodes Similar To This - Bill Browder - Oliver Bullough - Nicholas Shaxson ---- 00:00 - Who Is Stephanie Baker 03:21 - Moscow In The 90s & Fact Checking Christopher Hitchens 09:01 - How Oligarchs Were Created 17:07 - Hermitage Capital & Bill Browder 19:00 - Debut Book After 30 Years Of Journalism 27:46 - Economic Chaos From Sanctions 31:21 - Commodity Markets & Oil Chicanery 36:26 - Cannibalising Goods For Repurposing As Weapons 38:45 - McDonalds, Renault & Unilever Huge Russian Operations 54:50 - Euroclear"s Role 1:00:11 - Capital Flight, Offshore Plumbing & Financial Opacity 1:20:16 - Liquid wealth of Putin 1:21:36 - The Role Of Serendipity In Stephanies Life 🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg Follow me on Instagram – @ryanfhogg