How Fake Money Saved Brazil

This is a story about how an economist and his buddies tricked the people of Brazil into saving the country from rampant inflation. They had a crazy, unlikely plan, and it worked.

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  1. How Fake Money Saved Brazil

    —Huffduffed by theJBJshow on November 20th, 2010

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