According to the story of Exodus, Egypt suffered ten “plagues”
before Pharaoh finally agreed to release the Hebrews from
bondage. Those plagues included waters becoming blood, frogs,
lice, flies, diseased livestock, boils, hail, locusts, darkness,
and finally, the deaths of all firstborn Egyptian children. That
list of plagues surprises in the sense that it did not expressly
include famine. The Egyptians were harassed, annoyed, and
troubled—but they weren’t generally starved unto death. However,
recent events suggest that Egypt may be about to suffer an
“Eleventh Plague”—famine. Over the past 20 years or more, the US
has used the fiat dollar’s status as the “world reserve
currency” to export American inflation to foreign countries. As
a result, the prices of food and other commodities have been
rising globally to keep up with the depreciating dollar. As the
dollar inflates (grows less valuable), foreign food prices rise,
and foreign people find themselves less able to purchase food.
They begin to starve. • Al