# The Brazilian Reale is Going To Collapse-How To Profit?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [September 11, 2015, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brazilian-reale-is-going-to-collapse-how-to-profit/730666 "2015-09-11T13:18:28Z")
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### Author: ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2015, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brazilian-reale-is-going-to-collapse-how-to-profit/730666/21 "2015-09-12T14:12:56Z")

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> [@Gatopescado](#):
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> I was there in the 80’s. Inflation was so bad that phones and vending/pinball machines required special tokens to operate, because if you set up the device to use local coins, you would have to redo them every day! Not feasible.
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> So, you make the machine use the special token, then just adjust the price of the token. They would go up _daily._
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> Of course, as an avid pinball player, I bought them in bulk, and a week later, I was practically playing for free! That is how fast the inflation was back then in the Good Old Cruzero Days.
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> So, go to Brazil, buy up a shit-load of pinball tokens, wait a week or two, and sell them for much more than you paid!
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> The only problem is now you have twice as much money, and its probably worth less than when you started.
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> So, I would say sell drugs. 😃

Planet Money did an interesting podcast on Brazilian inflation.

[How Four Drinking Buddies Saved Brazil](http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/10/01/130267274/the-friday-podcast-how-four-drinking-buddies-saved-brazil)

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