Bread riots or bankruptcy

[Pete]

Bread riots or bankruptcy: Egypt faces stark economic choices

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middl...yInsideMonitor

'It was a perilous time for Egypt. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was demanding subsidy cuts in exchange for a loan Egypt's leaders desperately wanted. So they complied, cutting subsidies on the bread, cooking fuel, and gasoline average citizens relied on to live............................."

Worth a slow read.