If you are not a billionaire or a fund, the investment rules of yesteryear apply: gold won’t make you rich overnight and volatile assets like the bitcoin may come crashing down for reasons far beyond your grasp.
If you are not a billionaire or a fund, the investment rules of yesteryear apply: gold won’t make you rich overnight and volatile assets like the bitcoin may come crashing down for reasons far beyond your grasp.
French firms TotalEnergies and Renault announced they were, over time, suspending their activities and halting production in Russia after being widely criticized for their inaction since the invasion of Ukraine. But leaving Russia doesn’t have the same cost or the same consequences for all companies. And we should calculate in who will profit later.
Faced with a $32 billion drop in their wealth this year, Russian oligarchs are looking for assets to allow them to overcome sanctions that will increase with the invasion of Ukraine. Familiar with crises, they see bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as an escape from the hegemony of the dollar, and a way to diversify their holdings.