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 NewsletterStephanie Baker - Punishing PutinEpisodes Similar To This- Bill Browder- Oliver Bullough- Nicholas Shaxson----00:00 - Who Is Stephanie Baker03:21 - Moscow In The 90s & Fact Checking Christopher Hitchens09:01 - How Oligarchs Were Created17:07 - Hermitage Capital & Bill Browder19:00 - Debut Book After 30 Years Of Journalism27:46 - Economic Chaos From Sanctions31:21 - Commodity Markets & Oil Chicanery36:26 - Cannibalising Goods For Repurposing As Weapons38:45 - McDonalds, Renault & Unilever Huge Russian Operations54:50 - Euroclear's Role1:00:11 - Capital Flight, Offshore Plumbing & Financial Opacity1:20:16 - Liquid wealth of Putin1:21:36 - The Role Of Serendipity In Stephanies Life🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhoggFollow me on Instagram – @ryanfhogg