Investors Bet on Inflation, Overpaying for 5-Year Treasuries - NYTimes.com

Investors Bet on Inflation, Overpaying for 5-Year Treasuries - NYTimes.com

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You chose gold bar - please insert $11,350: "BERLIN: Apart from the gold-plated exterior - and the fact that they are bulletproof - they seem much like any other vending machine. But instead of chocolate bars, a network of ''gold-to-go'' machines dispenses 24-carat bullion."

How Fake Money Saved Brazil : Planet Money : NPR

How Fake Money Saved Brazil : Planet Money : NPR: "This is a story about how an economist and his buddies tricked the people of Brazil into saving the country from rampant inflation. They had a crazy, unlikely plan, and it worked."