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Re:In Argentina, inflation is a way of life by edwcross on Friday January 28, 2022 @01:05AM (#30111170)
Isn't that kind of what Brazil did in 1994 with URV?

From Wikipedia: "URVs were quoted in cruzeiros reais and its intrinsic value was pegged to three price indices and had a fixed parity of 1-to-1 to the daily U.S. dollar exchange rate."

Re:In Argentina, inflation is a way of life by jecel on Friday January 28, 2022 @03:22PM (#30119828)
It was the 1991 Cavallo Plan in Argentina that tied the local currency to the U.S. dollar:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convertibility_plan

The Real Plan in Brazil created a three month period with a combination of the old currency (Cruzeiros Novos) and a new virtual one (URV - Unidade Real de Valor) with an official daily exchange rate between them. This rate was selected to keep the URV at almost exactly 1 U.S. dollar but when both were replaced by a new actual currency (the Real), that was officially allowed to float relative to the dollar.

The real did initially get slightly valued relative to the dollar (an exchange rate of 1 R$ = 0.85 US$, for example) but floated slightly up and down until the end of 1998 when it suddenly jumped to 2 R$ = 1 US$ in order to block a huge wave of speculative money that was destroying economies around the world (having previously hit Russia, then the Asian Tigers).

Re:In Argentina, inflation is a way of life by novaleaf on Friday January 28, 2022 @01:04PM (#30118208)
You would like to listen to / read this planet money episode: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-...