In humanitarian aid security management, you take rumors seriously, as a reflection of the reality "the street" dictates. I've been in a situation where staff

In humanitarian aid security management, you take rumors seriously, as a reflection of the reality "the street" dictates. I've been in a situation where staff was worried that a currency was going to be devalued, and "word on the street" was that there could be trouble after pay day if pay was in the wrong currency. My country financial controller made a quick decision: we don't pay in that currency, we pay in the one "the street" believes is safe. It didn't change anything for us as an employer, just kept our staff safe by being on the "right side" of reality. We left it to the embassy and national bank to fight the (losing) war trying to prop up confidence in the currency.