Lives in the balance Keeping imports, exports and exchange rates at suitable levels is a delicate balancing act with heavy penalties for any country that gets it wrong.
Money moves fast.
Just wondered what this month s country profile was. Cameroon - and illuminating as always. But there s time enough for that. What we need to explore now are the mysterious forces that send currencies racing after each other across the world s computer screens. But for all the speculation and the politicking, the flows of finance should ultimately be based on honest trade and investment.