Henry Johnston

Henry Johnston is a staff editor and writer for RT, contributing pieces mainly about economics and finance. He lives in Moscow, Russia. Henry worked for over a decade in the investment research unit of Russia’s largest bank.

He has a deep interest in history and philosophy and is an avid amateur chess player.

Has the US finally succeeded in choking off Russia’s biggest trade lifeline? FEATURE
With the threat of secondary sanctions being felt acutely by Chinese banks, Washington may be winning a single battle – but in an economic war being decisively lost
Sep 6, 2024 10:36
Blast from the past: Why the Nord Stream sabotage may yet have its day of reckoning Opinion
Economic hardship in Europe and military humiliation in Ukraine mean this pivotal event won’t stay on the figurative sea floor forever
Aug 28, 2024 18:54
Apocalypse now or later? What the stock market collapse means and what the Fed fears most ANALYSIS
The American economy is too financialized to withstand any sustained drop in asset prices
Aug 5, 2024 18:31
The secret of the BRICS’ success is not what it is, but what it’s not ANALYSIS
The group is the antidote to a declining hegemon pursuing its own interests without regard for problems that require system-level solutions
Jul 29, 2024 22:07
The death of the petrodollar: What really happened between the US and Saudis? FEATURE
News about the expiration of a Washington-Riyadh deal may be fake, but an arrangement that is key to the dollar’s success has eroded
Jun 23, 2024 14:40
Do the new US sanctions mark Russia’s final divorce from the dollar? ANALYSIS
Washington’s policies are simply pushing Moscow further along a path it has already embarked on
Jun 13, 2024 19:59
Trump and ‘our democracy’: What happens when a political system becomes a meme? Opinion
It is a sign of deep crisis that the concept of democracy has devolved into an ideologically tinged narrative that is defended with empty and exaggerated rhetoric
Jun 2, 2024 18:36
Here’s why America’s usual approach isn’t working in Ukraine ANALYSIS
In a nation dominated by Wall Street, the strategy employed for combatting financial crises has seeped into other policymaking realms
May 29, 2024 18:11
Drowning in debt: The paralysis at the heart of the US fiscal crisis ANALYSIS
Washington is doing nothing about its deteriorating finances because there is nothing it can do without risking major upheaval
May 8, 2024 13:54
EU elites promised a prosperous green future. This could be their undoing Opinion
Technocrats have staked their legitimacy not so much on a carbon-neutral future as on a vision of prosperity that is rapidly receding
Apr 21, 2024 16:40

Henry Johnston

Top stories