Today, Egypt not only remains vulnerable to unstable domestic politics; owing to the depletion of its international reserves – at a rate of roughly $2 billion a month since last October – the country now also faces the threat of a currency crisis. Moreover, this almost certainly underestimates the extent of the losses, because it does not exclude inflows of $3.5 billion since November of last year from auctions of US-dollar-denominated treasury bills.
如今，埃及不仅面临着国内政治动荡，还面临着货币危机的风险——这主要是拜国际储备不断消耗所赐，自去年10月以来，每个月大概都要减少20亿美元。更坏的是，这一数字几乎肯定低估了储备减少问题的严重性，因为其中并未剔除去年11月以来拍卖美元国债所获得的35亿美元流入。