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Comment by jstalin

Of course, there were two components: the physical (stopping the runaway printing of money) and the psychological (changing people's expectations). So the title should more properly be something like "How Current Abstraction Helped Stop Runaway Inflation in Brazil."

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"You have to slow down the creation of money, they explained. But, just as important, you have to stabilize people's faith in money itself."

parent jstalin 11 years ago

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