Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/130329523/130329863" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> This is a story about how an economist and his buddies tricked the people of Brazil into saving the country from rampant inflation. They had a crazy, unlikely plan, and it worked. Twenty years ago, Brazil's inflation rate hit 80 percen