Tag Archives: Economic chaos sends Lebanese currency tumbling as citizens line up to buy ‘rationed’ dollars

The lines snaked around the block. Then they swelled to fill the whole street, before they turned into a raucous mob of men shoving to the front of the line. There at the exchange bureau, they could buy rationed dollars, the hottest commodity in Lebanon. The small Mediterranean country’s financial meltdown has thrown Lebanese into a frantic search for dollars …

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