re: #69 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
In Moscow in the early 90’s, vodka was as good as currency: universally tradeable, indefinite shelf life and stable in value when the currency was inflating over 6,000 percent annually…
liquid assets indeed.
I didn’t know that. It makes sense that anyone—Putin or otherwise—who could establish some kind of stability would be welcomed.