7 simple considerations about personal economics Photo: ULF Mauder / Picture Alliance Via Getty Images 1. The crisis, which, like a tidal wave, rolls on the Russian economy, has political reasons. Therefore, it will be more difficult to cope with it with purely economic measures. Economists think in the category “twice two to four”, politicians can think that twice two to five. But you can’t deceive mathematics - unlike people. I must say, this crisis was not sudden, as in other years.