Quote Originally Posted by UhOhXplode View Post
No offense. It was just a comment I didn't expect but I don't take these discussions on a personal level. People always have different opinions.
You're right, online shopping wouldn't help the economy but at least it could help some of the people and that's more important, imo. But you're also right that I don't think enough about these things. For example, I wasn't aware that economies around the world were in free fall. Prices are rising faster here but dad's brokers know what to do when that happens so we only get gains and not losses - countries in free fall need better lawyers and brokers.
And yeah, western sources are fine for economic issues except they're so negative. I totally would rather read about bears and claws than how the whole world is exploding and everybody is doomed. Western economic media is scary.

Anyway, every media has it's own issues and it's own agendas. All the anti-Russian stuff in the western media is seriously annoying but so are all the American civil rights stories in the Russian media. It's all just a media war. That's why I wanna see both sides because it's not easy to get legit information out of all the propaganda that's happening on every side.
I'm not trying to be personal. I'm just trying to explain, why I believe there are very serious economic problems out there and in Russia, it is more grave than what many make it out to be. Just because I am negative, it doesn't mean I aim to offend. I mentioned in another post/thread, that Russian media spin the facts and information. Of course, the West does, too. It's another topic/theme, however, and I think the West is in trouble economically and there's data and info out there that can illustrate that, too. If you don't like to read something negative, that's your prerogative but that doesn't mean it's not the reality. If you want something clear and simple, then you can look at economics at a very summarized concept. Russia's main industry is gas/oil/natural resources sector and oil prices have just plummeted. Banks are in major trouble and just like the EU, for e.g., and the USA, the government feels it must bail them out. Russia imports most of its goods even compared to exports (oil/gas again) and prices are rising for ordinary Russians. The oligarchs don't like that they are losing money so they are asking to be bailed out.