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...book is at its best describing the follies committed by people and institutions that are supposed to be the epitome of reason and prudence. During the great splurge, dividend money in the hands of aggressive investors was often looked on as merely another tool to manipulate stock prices. As a source of stable income, the philosophy went, "dividends are for old ladies." The eventual losers included some of the hitherto most conservatively managed money groups in the country-including university endowment funds, whose trustees were urged to pursue "unconventional investing" by no less influential a benefactor than the president...
...world. It is a role that will surely be affected by the staggering financial cost of the conflict. With that in mind, William Doerner of our Business section calculated the war's drain on the U.S. Treasury through the years and explained why the oft-mentioned "peace dividend" is not likely to materialize. Bob McCabe wrote a portrait of the leaders who have directed the North Vietnamese. Deborah Pierce, Alice George and Antoinette Melillo of our picture department compiled a photo gallery of war personalities who were once familiar to all but have since disappeared from view. More representative...
...projects. By contrast, the Viet Nam War never required quite enough of the nation's output to cause such shortages in civilian goods, and the U.S.'s spending on it has shrunk considerably in the past three years. Says Economist Edward Fried of Washington's Brookings Institution: "The peace dividend has virtually been paid...
Considering the vast sums spent on Viet Nam, why will the once vaunted peace dividend be so small? The main reason: many of the benefits have already been parceled out during the slow, tortuous winding down of the war. The 10% income surtax that became effective in 1968, for example, was cut by three-quarters in 1970 and canceled altogether thereafter...
John Maynard Keynes called profits "the engine which drives enterprise." Millions of Americans depend on that engine to a great degree not only for their jobs but also for financial growth through profit-sharing funds, pension funds and dividend payments. Profits are used to enrich not merely a relatively few corporate managers and big shareholders but also masses of wage earners. When profits are perking up, a company's management is more willing and able to grant wage and salary increases to its employees. High-profit companies can be expected to spend more than low-profit firms to invest...