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Oct 2 2008, 4:01 AM ET

Alex Tabarrok flags an article in the WSJ on a new currency in prison: fish. Money quote:

Mr. Muntz says he sold more than $1 million of mackerel for federal prison commissaries last year. It accounted for about half his commissary sales, he says, outstripping the canned tuna, crab, chicken and oysters he offers.



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