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Moneyness: What happens to the Afghanistan central bank's assets?

pc86 2021-08-17 23:43:47 +0000 UTC [ - ]

Is there any way of shorting a currency other than the "traditional" way of borrowing it via a loan? I imagine liquidity issues might turn attempts to short the AF$ into a ticking time bomb of sorts.

toomuchtodo 2021-08-18 03:06:24 +0000 UTC [ - ]

You’d use a derivative, although at this point I’d imagine the move is already priced in (unless you want to gamble on total collapse).

wizwit999 2021-08-17 21:30:36 +0000 UTC [ - ]

Frozen now, https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/08/17/treasury..., hopefully can be settled out as this will just hurt common people.