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Old 31st Aug 2021, 16:40
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As previous mentioned, Afghanistan is broke and, without weekly flights from the USA literally bringing in C-17 loads of dollars, the banks and ATMs are empty - signalling a decent to bartering and hyperinflation within days.

The country’s main legal export is carpets, their main illegal export is opium - which the Taliban have just prohibited. Good luck with that.

On the bright side they have b*goer all national debt (only just over $1b in total), on the down side it may be hard to get anyone to lend to them on Sharia interest free terms…..

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/worl...down-1.4661232

‘No money in Kabul’: Afghanistan confronts economic meltdown


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