Devaluations Are Never Easy.

If You Have A Lot Of Short-term Debt, It Means That All Of That Money Can Be Demanded In A Very Short Period Of Time. Technically, Short-term Debt Means Money That's Coming Due Within A Year. Typically, It Means Money That's Coming Due Within 30 To 90 Days.

Unfortunately, The Real Focus In This Country Has Not Been On The Rest Of The World. It's Been On Our Own Issues And Our Own Problems. Fair Enough. But It Means That Our Simple Hopes That Everything Will Just Work Out Abroad Aren't Really Coming To Pass.

The Longer You Wait, The Less Fun. If You Wait Until The Bitter End, The Whole Economy Can Be Destroyed.

Deep Down, If We Really Accept That Their Lives - African Lives - Are Equal To Ours, We Would All Be Doing More To Put The Fire Out. Its An Uncomfortable Truth.

The Truth Of Good Economic Doctoring Is To Know The General Principles, And To Really Know The Specifics. To Understand The Context, And Also, To Understand That An Economy May Need Some Tender Loving Care, Not Just The So-called Hard Truths, If It's Going To Get By.