E30 - Covert Cash & Cold Chaos: How Kazakhstan Secretly Printed Its Way to Economic Independence

05/08/2025 11 min

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Episode Synopsis

Where'd the Kazakh Tenge come from? This is the story of the Tenge, the remarkable and unexpected currency born of chaos. In a time when vodka was used as a savings device, as the ruble crumbled a new currency suddenly emerged.

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