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Why party balloons were once artificially cheap

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The fact that you can buy a floating party balloon for a dollar is an economic anomaly. The US government hoarded billions of cubic feet of helium during the Cold War in a strategic reserve. Decades later, they began aggressively dumping it onto the market at artificially low prices, completely hiding the fact that we are dangerously running out of it.

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