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| | FT.com - Special Reports / Nico Colchester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | The Mars Bar is a currency for our time: it is a long-established basket of staple commodities (cocoa, vegetable fats, milk solids, sugar) packaged with great consistency in the form of an ingot. |
 | | Yet in real, which is to say Mars Bar, terms his pay has advanced modestly, rising from MB 33,000 in 1940 to MB 38,000 today. |
 | | There must be a moral behind this conundrum: the pound has plunged in real value despite all the efforts of government and Bank to preserve its apparent worth, yet the Mars Bar has held its worth despite the untiring efforts of the issuer to make it seem as cheap as possible. |
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