A customer counts out ruble banknotes at a food market in Moscow on December 23rd. Credit Photograph by Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty The news in Moscow is that everyone has a new television and some people have a new car, but no one has any money or plans for winter vacation travel—or any plans for the future, really. When the ruble collapsed in mid-December, a man went to an Audi dealership to find that only one new car was still available; while he was test-driving the car, someone else bought it in cash sight unseen. Several people told me this story as though it was about a friend of theirs, and it may in fact be true. It is certainly true that large electronics stores have sold out of expensive television sets, which are apparently the durable good of choice in this round of dumping tumbling currency, and instructions […]