Episode 514: How Bernanke Set Off Tomato Protests In Brazil : Planet Money Tomato inflation in South America. Coal start-ups in Indonesia. Fat Cats on Wall Street. What do they all have to do with each other?

Episode 514: How Bernanke Set Off Tomato Protests In Brazil


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Tomato inflation in South America. Coal start-ups in Indonesia. Fat Cats on Wall Street. What do they all have to do with each other?
Their fates all rest on the words out of one man: Ben Bernanke.
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