Word: demand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then Treasury Secretary, W. Michael Blumenthal, strongly disagreed. He argued that the slowdown was only momentary and that demand for money and credit would soon be rocketing all over again. That is precisely what happened. With people increasingly following an impulse to "buy now before the price goes up," spending began to roar anew in midsummer. Consumers once again crowded into supermarkets and stores while businesses began to borrow at a breakneck clip...
Left to itself, the accelerating demand for credit would have quickly pushed interest rates far beyond the target that the Federal Reserve had set. For instance, interest on six-month Treasury bills, which is used as a guide for regulating interest on certain bank deposits, would have leaped alarmingly. To keep money markets stable, the Fed's so-called Open Market Desk in New York was forced to begin making more and more money available to banks in order to satisfy demand for funds. Indeed, though the Fed's own inflation-cooling monetary growth target was 4.5%, which is just...
...Demand for credit ballooned. In the past four weeks alone, loans to business jumped at a rate of 23%, while the commercial paper market, which is where big corporations trade megabuck lOUs back and forth among themselves, leaped by an astonishing...
...Demand remains impressively strong, as the latest retail sales results show. In September purchases by consumers rose by a very vigorous 2.2%, which was nearly twice the increase that had occurred in any previous month this year. Moreover, revised Government figures show that spending in August climbed by an astonishing 3.1%, which works out to an annual rate...
...chances of such a crunch developing would be somewhat higher if the Federal Reserve continued its now discarded practice of trying to manage the money supply by juggling interest rates Reason: in a slowdown, demand for money necessarily eases off at least somewhat and interest rates subside. But to keep those rates stable, the Fed would wind up slowing and slowing the growth of money until suddenly it would be creating nowhere near enough new money...