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i want to first ask our viewers to join in our conversation if you have questions for bill browder, please tweet them to us at post live and we ll try to select the questions that come in over the next half hour and and put them to our our guest second. i want to ask you to focus before we talk about your book on the war in in ukraine it be interested in your sense of the the battlefield right now as russia launches its second round they failed in their efforts to capture keith. how do you assess this next phase of the war that began this week? well putin doesn t doesn t do humiliation. well. and he s been humiliated the first eight weeks of the war. everybody thought that well everyone thought in the first two days of the war that russia would would roll into ukraine they would take over kiev that zelensky would flee and and they could then raise the russian flag and and with great pride and and patriotism. and it turned out to be a total disaster the they ve lost by b ....
i m david ignatius a columnist for the post my guest today is bill browder. who was the founder of hermitage capital one of the biggest investors in russia after the fall of communism. now one of the biggest critics in the world of russian president vladimir putin, mr. brighter has a new book freezing order the true story of money laundering murder and surviving vladimir putin s wrath bill bradder. thank you so much for joining us on washington post live. great to be here. thank you. before we talk about your book. i want to first ask our viewers to join in our conversation if you have questions for bill browder, please tweet them to us at post live and we ll try to select the questions that come in over the next half hour and and put them to our our guest second. i want to ask you to focus before we talk about your book on the war in in ukraine it be interested in your sense of the the battlefield right now as russia launches its second round they failed in their effor ....
on washington post live. great to be here. thank you. before we talk about your book. i want to first ask our viewers to join in our conversation if you have questions for bill browder, please tweet them to us at post live and we ll try to select the questions that come in over the next half hour and and put them to our our guest second. i want to ask you to focus before we talk about your book on the war in in ukraine it be interested in your sense of the the battlefield right now as russia launches its second round they failed in their efforts to capture keith. how do you assess this next phase of the war that began this week? well putin doesn t doesn t do humiliation. well. and he s been humiliated the first eight weeks of the war. everybody thought that well everyone thought in the first two days of the war that russia would would roll into ukraine they would take over kiev that zelensky would flee and and they could then raise the russian flag and and with great pr ....
Following the ecb press conference, but the sharp move came out after the robert. 6 ler story came out, down and continuing the downtrend for the u. S. Dollar as of late. We did see a leica lower in stocks as well. They have largely recovered and now back to the little change line where we did see a bit of reaction in trading volume. Trading volume has been low. Along with volatility. This is the average volume for the s p 500. If you look at the bloomberg terminal, we did see a spike. Look at whatn to im talking about. You have the average fall you for 20 days in the blue bars. The white line is where we are today. At 10 30, we saw that spike in volume. But forome back down, the first time volume above the 20 day average, 10 for the s p 500, so a couple of reactions to that story coming out and speculation about what the mother investigation might yield and what that might mean for the further legislative chances of things like tax reforms. Vonnie thank you for that breakdown. For som ....
Welcome to wash the post live. Im David Ignatius a columnist for the post my guest today is bill browder. Who was the founder of Hermitage Capital one of the biggest investors in russia after the fall of communism. Now one of the biggest critics in the world of russian president Vladimir Putin, mr. Brighter has a new book freezing order the true story of Money Laundering murder and surviving Vladimir Putins wrath bill bradder. Thank you so much for joining us on Washington Post live. Great to be here. Thank you. Before we talk about your book. I want to first ask our viewers to join in our conversation if you have questions for bill browder, please ....