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With both Japan and West Germany trying to dampen their growth, the risk is that their measures will completely choke it off in the U.S. The situation once again puts the Federal Reserve in a precarious position. If the Fed leaves interest rates where they are, the economy might slide into a recession. But if it eases rates, the already flagging U.S. dollar might slump even more, which could readily spark inflation because Americans would have to pay more for imports. Even so, the Bush Administration hopes that the Fed will ease its grip on credit. Bush publicly called...
...anger at the Communist regime, coupled with emotional longings for "one German * fatherland," could result in violent demonstrations that would paralyze the government. The new leader of the East German Communist Party, Gregor Gysi, last week appealed to the U.S. to play a vigorous role in Europe, mostly to dampen West German pressure for absorbing his country...
Gorbachev has tried to dampen the ardor for repealing Article 6, claiming that giving up one-party rule would be a capitulation. But there were signs last week that the Kremlin was willing to fiddle with the text. Noting that Article 6 was "not a taboo subject," Politburo ideologist Vadim Medvedev said the present wording should not be kept "at all cost" and ought to be "brought into line with the party's new role in society...
Sluggish home prices are also good news in the drive to dampen inflation. Returning to the days of negligible inflation, if we eventually can do so, should also mean returning to the days of low interest rates (from 1880 to 1965, home mortgage rates above 6% were all but unheard of), and that would be good news for the economy -- and for future home buyers...
...Stoughton, Wis., markets units that can be bolted to air ducts to mute the blast of industrial fans and heating and air-conditioning systems. Noise Cancellation Technologies of New York City just announced a joint venture with Tenneco to make electronic mufflers for automobiles and light trucks that can dampen engine boom without reducing engine performance or fuel efficiency...