How to Store Value When Your Currency Is Unstable
When a currency stops holding value, the enduring survival move is the same one families have made for centuries: convert savings into something whose worth doesn't depend on the failing currency.
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Fatima trained in economic history and spent years writing long-form explainers on money and money's failures. She grew up between Dakar and Paris and writes about how ordinary families protect themselves when institutions falter....