Before the currency crash, Thailand's performance was at best mixed.

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It can, for example, be mixed into the ink or paper that is used to make passports or currency.

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But the record of currency pegs, and intervention in the markets to support them, is mixed at best.

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But for emerging markets, such flows have traditionally been a mixed blessing, exacerbating local credit booms, and pushing up the value of their currency.

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