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...recession would complicate Carter's economic policy by causing a rise in unemployment from the present 5.9 per cent level...
...FANFARE about inflation being public enemy number one, Carter's target inflation rate for 1980 of 6.3 per cent is shockingly modest, especially in light of the sacrifices in public welfare his plan would require. In real terms, his proposed budget would reduce the appropriations for social services by about 15 billion dollars while allowing the nation's arms arsenal to continue growing. Though some cuts of redundant or unnecessary programs may be justified, the proposed slashing of federal jobs programs, which would wipe out over 150,000 jobs provided by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, and practically eradicate...
...take up the employment slack caused by his programs, he may have a grim surprise awaiting him. Allowing them to keep more of their profits won't cause them to create many more jobs. The Department of Commerce reports that since 1970 net corporate profits have risen 270 per cent--and unemployment has soared as well...
...appalling. When discussing deregulation of competitive industries in his State of the Union address, he shrewdly avoided mentioning his efforts to raise prices in one of the most concentrated, oligopolistic, profitable industries in the economy--big oil. Not only do the top eight petroleum refining companies possess 14.5 per cent of the the market, they also control the other stages of the production process. And as anyone who has taken Ec 10 knows, the oil industry does not fit the classical model of perfect competition. The vertically integraged oligopoly does not set its prices at MC equals...
...Carter's most recent press conference, one reporter asked the president to react to the fourth-quarter profits of the oil companies which reached 48 per cent, 72 per cent, 44 per cent and 134 per cent in light of the president's request that workers in the oil industry hold their wage demands to seven per cent. Carter answered that, like all good Americans, he would "like to see a good balance between prices and profits...