Those of us who sometimes watt
tael or Mexican' ehoquo in hopes!
day of ta before ealog that the bank exchange rate will improve a coat or two can perhaps appreciate the situation' in. the recent fall in German money.
"When your money is certain to be worthless tomorrow (worth-legs is about right), and a drop
unusual experience, you will not of 30 per cent. overnight is no inclined to save your money.
From newspaper and magazine accounts of the financial position in, Germany, some features of that position were distinctly fanny—fo one who had no marks on his hand:
When shopkeepers only _kept open long enough in the morning tomake in the cash necessary for daily living expenses, and shut up shop and refused to sell any more ist as soon as they had their daily expenses in hand, the job then became that of ridding themselves of the depreciating marks while they had still nearly} the value they had when received. The man who waited too, long was out of luck, for there was nowhere) to spend his marks, and the rate] of the next day would'"be alf} for lasa of to-day's.
In this -difemma there, was: Hhope" leftéthe" -plost "fiver" postage stamps might be sold, for
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