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Jared Polis: “When I went to Moscow...the underlying commodity that was…”

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Published | Video Starts at 04:57

And then back to when I went to Moscow. It was a very exciting and hopeful time. Obviously it worked out terribly for the people of Russia, but This was the time When I went to Moscow...the underlying commodity that was being traded were actually privatization vouchers. It was and always is interesting to me. How do you privatize the state owned economy? They issued every citizen a privatization voucher. (04:57–05:09)

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Asserts that privatization vouchers were the underlying commodity traded in Moscow during his time there.

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