DXY TREND ANALYSED FOR today .
Learning the art
Manipulators and con artists flock to boom towns
w here the money comes easy and plentiful, and then
move on when the prosperity plays out. Houston,
Texas, was just such a boom town in the early 1970s
as the energy shortage in the rest of the country
pumped a deluge of easy dollars into this city built on
oil. By moving to Houston, I had no trouble contact-
ing con artists, because hordes of their numbers
roosted in the bars there.
Shortly after I arrived there, I took an apartment
with Hardy, a habitual drunk who, when sober, is
probably the most masterly manipulator I have ever
known or expect to know. Hardy was panting hot on
the heels of a cafe waitress he had chased into town.
Learning the art
Manipulators and con artists flock to boom towns
w here the money comes easy and plentiful, and then
move on when the prosperity plays out. Houston,
Texas, was just such a boom town in the early 1970s
as the energy shortage in the rest of the country
pumped a deluge of easy dollars into this city built on
oil. By moving to Houston, I had no trouble contact-
ing con artists, because hordes of their numbers
roosted in the bars there.
Shortly after I arrived there, I took an apartment
with Hardy, a habitual drunk who, when sober, is
probably the most masterly manipulator I have ever
known or expect to know. Hardy was panting hot on
the heels of a cafe waitress he had chased into town.
