Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has been in the news a lot lately talking about currency issues and the future of BP ahead of next week’s G20 meeting. In the process, he’s starting to make anyone who didn’t know any better think that he’s actually running the country. Below, the folks at the Wall Street Journal talk about Medvedev’s big week ahead.

To dampen the fun being had by the younger WSJ crowd on what looks to have been a giddy, half-staffed Friday morning in Manhattan when this video was taped, David Wessel is brought in at about the six minute mark to talk about the impact of lower consumer prices on corporate profits and everyone’s favorite summer topic – de-flation.