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After the dust storms had swept over the Midwest in 1935 and 1936, thousand of families left their useless farms and began traveling by automobile to California,
where, they had heard, there was enough work for everybody. When they reached their destination, they discovered that workers were needed only a few weeks
a year. You can easily imagine how disappointed they were. On frequent occasions they found themselves without money or food. Life was extremely inconvenient
for them. Often they slept in tents or shacks, got their water from ditches, and, when night came, were without lights (for of course they had no electricity).
The federal government, impressed by their misery, endeavored to help these unfortunate farmers by setting up large camps for them to live-in while they
looked for work. A fair rule of the thumb is that when economists agree that a currency will rise, it will fall. Look at the dollar. Almost everybody
expected it to climb this year as stronger growth in America pushed up interest rates, while rates in sluggish Europe and Japan fell. Interest rates have
shifted in the dollar's favour, yet since January the greenback has dropped against most currencies; last week it nearly breached a post - 1945 low of
Y100. Heavy buying of dollars by central banks and a half point cut in Germany's discount rate on May 11th has helped to lift it again, but the underlying
cause of its weakness remains: deep distrust of American's economic policy. The dollar and bond prices have fallen despite three recent hikes by the Fed
where, they had heard, there was enough work for everybody. When they reached their destination, they discovered that workers were needed only a few weeks
a year. You can easily imagine how disappointed they were. On frequent occasions they found themselves without money or food. Life was extremely inconvenient
for them. Often they slept in tents or shacks, got their water from ditches, and, when night came, were without lights (for of course they had no electricity).
The federal government, impressed by their misery, endeavored to help these unfortunate farmers by setting up large camps for them to live-in while they
looked for work. A fair rule of the thumb is that when economists agree that a currency will rise, it will fall. Look at the dollar. Almost everybody
expected it to climb this year as stronger growth in America pushed up interest rates, while rates in sluggish Europe and Japan fell. Interest rates have
shifted in the dollar's favour, yet since January the greenback has dropped against most currencies; last week it nearly breached a post - 1945 low of
Y100. Heavy buying of dollars by central banks and a half point cut in Germany's discount rate on May 11th has helped to lift it again, but the underlying
cause of its weakness remains: deep distrust of American's economic policy. The dollar and bond prices have fallen despite three recent hikes by the Fed
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