
Why Target Russian Oil Revenue?
Jul 4, 2022 Simon Johnson sees no alternative to a price cap that would permanently deny the Kremlin the means to wage aggressive war.
Simon Johnson, a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, is a professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and a co-chair of the COVID-19 Policy Alliance. He is the co-author (with Jonathan Gruber) of Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream and the co-author (with James Kwak) of 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and The Next Financial Meltdown.
Jul 4, 2022 Simon Johnson sees no alternative to a price cap that would permanently deny the Kremlin the means to wage aggressive war.
May 31, 2022 Simon Johnson proposes the creation of a Western buyers’ cartel to deny the Kremlin revenues from oil exports.
May 2, 2022 Simon Johnson urges Europeans to stop financing a Russian strategy that would erase eight decades of peace and prosperity.
Mar 31, 2022 Simon Johnson & Oleg Ustenko say that the US, Europe, and their allies have all the tools needed to neutralize the country's leverage.
Feb 28, 2022 Simon Johnson makes the case for the West to stop sending Russia $500 million a day for energy supplies.