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Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker warned that a weak dollar could ”undercut incentives for others to place their funds in the U.S.”

That, he said, could result in higher interest rates and renewed inflation. Volcker, in a visit to Yale University, said countries with large trade surpluses face ”the clear danger that without offsetting adjustments elsewhere in the economy, their own growth prospects will suffer.”