• marcos@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    People traded black market food-voucher derivatives in the Brazilian hyper inflation…

    It made it easier to redeem all of them as soon as you got a hold of them, because they wouldn’t buy the same thing through the entire month. Natural gas vouchers were more stable, though, so those only traded at face value.