How Four Drinking Buddies Saved Brazil

Planet Money

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🗓️ 1 January 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Inflation in Brazil was out of control for a decade. Four former drinking buddies from grad school fixed it. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

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1:04.1	15 years ago, money basically had no value in Brazil.
1:08.0	The inflation rate in Brazil in 1990 was about 80 percent a month.
1:13.2	So imagine just going to the store.
1:16.1	Like one day, eggs will cost a dollar in the store.
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