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...have emphasized that we must use the "peace dividend" which will accrue from an end to the Vietnam war for social programs at home and peaceful development abroad...
...must recognize our action as a stopgap to hold programs intact until an end to the war permits an expansion in the works of social justice here at home. Let us remember, however, that we must have a Congress and an Administration that will allocate the peace dividend to domestic needs. This was not the case after Korea...
Foreigners, too, are flocking to the Tokyo exchange, despite a 15% dividend tax levied on foreign investors' holdings. U.S. investors are hampered by the 18.75% interest-equalization tax collected by the U.S. government on stock purchases abroad. But others, especially Europeans, are busy buying into Japanese companies at a monthly rate of $21 million, up from an average $5,000,000 a month during 1966. Trading in Sony Corp., a favorite blue-chip stock, has already reached the government-imposed 20% ceiling on shares that foreigners can own in a company...
...gained. Where will it all end? ask many uneasy Americans. Will the second car or the boat be sacrificed to higher taxes? Will Daughter be raped or robbed by a black-nationalist hoodlum or move in with a beaded, bearded white hippie? Will Junior's college career-the dividend of long years of saving-end on a picket line organized by anarchists who wave Viet Cong flags and spit on the Stars and Stripes that Dad fought for in World War II? In fact, blacks are by far the most frequent victims of black criminals, and there...
...economy collected a surprise dividend last week from its new burden of higher taxes. In a move that most moneymen had not expected for weeks or even months, the Federal Reserve Board lowered its discount rate from 51% to 51%. Though the 1% change was as small as the Reserve Board ever makes it, it was an unmistakable signal of a general trend toward lower interest rates on all kinds of loans...