How Fake Money Saved Brazil

Re:How Fake Money Saved Brazil by brianbreslin on Monday October 04, 2010 @08:04PM (#1758084)

you mean somewhere like zimbabwe trying this? It would be particularly tough since they have 1000% monthly inflation or some other insanity.

i don't think zimbabwe has enough control on their economy to pull this off.

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Re:How Fake Money Saved Brazil by quadhome on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @03:46AM (#1758959)

Zimbabwe doesn't have a currency anymore.

They gave up and went to nationally accepting the dollar (USD), pula (Botswana), or rand (SA).

Helped things a lot. :-)

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Re:How Fake Money Saved Brazil by bartwe on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @06:38AM (#1759212)

Sounds not all that different from the solution in the article, changing to a trusted currency. The basis of the trust is the largest diff.

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Re:How Fake Money Saved Brazil by cturner on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @06:25AM (#1759193)

I've been wondering - how do they keep the civil service and army moving now? They were using inflation to pay for this. Having lost that ability, what are they doing instead?

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