The pair used the money for everything but real estate by paying themselves big salaries, buying big cars and then saw fit to dabble in some currency trading that ended in total losses.

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Many do not believe that both these currencies fit the global criteria for reserve currency status.

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But they cannot surrender their peg until the country's banks are fit enough to live with a currency free to float and capital free to flee.

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