The official (basically pegged) Egyptian pound to dollar exchange rate is currently 31-to-1, but on the black market it's about double that.
People naturally try to arbitrage that difference, and so the country has to start enforcing capital controls in order to reduce the ways that the fake exchange rate can be arbitraged.
A vicious cycle that inevitably leads to major devaluation.
As you move down the scale of USD to hyperinflation fiat does it ironically become less fractionally reserved?
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