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When bricks were rubles

Planet Money

CHAPTER

Is There a Connection Between the Us and the Rest of the World?

Barry: Behind the iron curtain, this bronze oven company looked great. I mean, they were selling these ovens out of the us. S r. They were making money. It appeared tatthat maybe one of the things the us.S r was good at was making bronze industrial ovens. But as they were exporting these things to germany, germany was melting the ovens down and just selling the bronze. He so at is an example of negative value added, right? Ad everything else that went into the industrial oven was worthless ry. In other words, this little business was functionally a bronze exporter. And frankly, it could have done better just

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