During the summer, winds typically kick up at about 1 p.m. as California's steamy Central Valley creates a vacuum that pulls in cool air from the Bay.

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The Central Bank will turn on its dollar vacuum machine and suck them out of the market every day at dollar auctions, building reserves.

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This is a pity, not least because the new bank will operate in far more of a political vacuum than such notably independent central banks as the Bundesbank and the Fed.

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