India's poor are in crisis after the government demonetized some of its currency

via Global Risk Insights Millions of individuals and businesses across India are struggling to cope with the financial chaos unleashed three weeks ago whenPrime Minister Narendra Modi made the shocking announcement: Starting immediately, the country’s 500- and 1,000-rupee notes, which represented 86 percent of the currency in circulation, would no longer be legal tender. Anyone holding the notes, which Modi has removed from circulation in an attempt to cripple the country’s widespread corrup...