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#320: How Fear Turned A Surplus Into Scarcity

#320: How Fear Turned A Surplus Into Scarcity

Planet Money vor 14 Jahren

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Today on the podcast, the story of one of the most destructive and mysterious food shortages in recent memory. The most mysterious thing about this shortage of rice: There was more than enough to go around.It is the epic story of a shortage that wasn't.In this global caper of good intentions gone wrong, there are shadowy trade deals, corrupt government officials, and warehouses full of rice in a country that didn't want it.