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...share prices have fallen 8.5% in the past three weeks. London's market has been buffeted by high domestic interest costs as well, with short-term rates hitting 15%. The Bank of England has been boosting rates to combat an 8% inflation spiral, which has been aggravated by double-digit increases in recent labor contracts. Case in point: last week Ford's British subsidiary agreed to a 10% wage increase for its unionized workers...
...than any other authority, save perhaps his mother. I have followed his academic progress for over twenty years now, from his tens tables to last semester's electives. He has done well, but recently has developed a complex: he fancies himself a cog in a great machine, an 8-digit number in a vast academic apparatus...
Despite these violent disagreements about the future, there is at least some agreement about the past decade. It began in a distinctly gloomy atmosphere known as stagflation: double-digit inflation combined with growth rates of 2% or less. Cigar-chomping Paul Volcker, then the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, is generally credited with breaking the inflation by reining in the money supply in 1980-81. That also touched off the worst recession of the postwar era, bringing unemployment rates of more than 10% (25% in some areas and industries). President Reagan helped end the downturn by cutting taxes...