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Reagan seeks to defuse the double-digit unemployment issue...
...itself, a 10% rate would not be significantly higher than the 9.8% jobless rate for July and August. But double-digit unemployment could have important psychological consequences, since it would focus attention on the Democrats' most promising issue. In California, for example, 42% of the people responding to a recent poll named unemployment as the top concern in this fall's election; crime was a distant second at 22%. The Democratic state committee is distributing a newsletter labeled the "Reagan Recession Watch" to every Democrat running for any kind of office in California and to 60,000 party...
...been campaigning for Democratic candidates: "You get the darndest feeling out there that it's supposed to be patriotic to go broke." Republican Pollster Robert Teeter asserts: "People would almost rather wait six months and vote." Indeed, Democratic strategists may be overestimating the impact of double-digit joblessness...
...like Richard Zambell, chief economist of the BancOhio National Bank in Columbus, expect that the current rapid growth of the U.S. money supply (an annual rate of 14.8% in the past month) will force the Federal Reserve Board to tighten credit. Argues Zambell: "To prevent a return to double-digit inflation, the Fed will have to push interest rates sharply higher by year...
...Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, Budget Director David Stockman and the chairman of the CEA. In weekly break fast meetings of the group, Feldstein has managed to hold his own in even the most esoteric of budget debates with Stockman, who possessesa daunting reputation for his deft handling of twelve-digit numbers. Feldstein's tactic: offering historical comparisons backed up with specific statistics, a device that Stockman has also used with success in policy disputes. Says Treasury Secretary Regan of the meetings: "Marty gives Dave a run for his money. If we're talking about the rates of real...