Jordan 5 Fire Red: The Global Currency Nobody Asked For
PARIS—At 09:00 CET, while the European Central Bank was busy explaining why inflation is “transitory” for the fourteenth consecutive month, a parallel monetary drama was unfolding in front of the Opéra Garnier. Two hundred people—Tokyo scalpers, Detroit teens on spring break, and a surprisingly well-informed delegation from Lagos—stood in a queue that smelled faintly of…