Re:How Fake Money Saved Brazil
by coliveira on Monday October 04, 2010 @10:02PM
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That was the problem in Brazil, money was created not to invest but to pay existing debt.
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Not really. Brazil's inflation had an extra factor helping it: lots of prices (as well as salaries) were automatically revalued by "triggers". The plan wouldn't have worked if the government hadn't also dropped all these mechanisms.