Now they fear that Europe's currency crisis will make things even worse.
"The family is looking for an easy way to solve the currency crisis quickly," the adviser said.
Many investors are still wary following Mexico's currency crisis last year.
But the truth is that currency crises are old hat.
The currency crisis is one possibility, but not a necessity.
The result was a currency crisis that became a matter of public knowledge two days after the general election.
But the currency crisis in Europe is another matter.
There was no currency crisis during the early part of the decade.
You know about the currency crisis and the high bank rate?
The most difficult is how to respond to last week's currency crisis.
Witness the repeated European monetary crises over the last year.
However, take as an example the monetary crisis of the last century.
That same year there was a monetary crisis which caused panic all over northern Europe.
At the same time he was accused of being responsible for the Swedish monetary crisis in 1947.
"I fail to understand the basis of the charge that we caused the monetary crisis in Mexico," he said later.
A monetary crisis is defined as the depreciation of a currency by more than 25% in one year.
Previously, poor national management could cause a monetary crisis, which would require corrective measures.
We must raise awareness that the monetary crisis may have serious political consequences.
We think it's recovering nicely from the 1998 monetary crisis.
"It's the monetary crisis," he said, though he was not certain exactly what that meant.