Word: economists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Narrowing the focus still further, Economist Dexter M. Keezer, director of the McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. Economic Department, predicted that house building, down this year, will rise 10% to a total $16 billion in 1958, balancing in part a 7% decline (to $34.5 billion) in plant expansion. And by 1960-"perhaps before," added Keezer-"investment in new plant and equipment will be heading for another record...
...there is a growing suspicion among economists and businessmen that the accuracy of the index leaves a lot to be desired. In the first place, the index is not supposed to be a true measure of the cost of living. As the Bureau of Labor Statistics points out, it is only a measure of what families in the under-$10,000-a-year bracket, living chiefly in cities, pay for the "market basket" of 300 goods and services that such representative families presumably buy. The index shows the price increase since 1947-49, the base year, but no economist regards...
...Communist groups still terrorizing the swampy country near the Cambodia border. But if the Communists had hoped to disrupt the Colombo conference, they had failed miserably. Dancing an exotic Brazilian samba to the music of a New Orleans jazz band at the Cercle Sportif that evening, an Indian economist announced happily, "The bombs had no effect whatever on our conference. This city is simply full of life...
...business expansion, but predicted that business will continue at a high plateau through most of 1958, though it might slip 1% or 2%. Plainly, the stock market, influenced by Wall Street's pessimism about the business scene, has already discounted a much bigger drop in business than any economist or businessman could foresee...
...work force but must succeed in boosting per capita gross national product at least 5% annually (v. 2.5% for the U.S. in 1957), with up-to-date machinery and management methods, hydroelectric energy, nuclear power, research to find substitutes for earth's dwindling resources. This means also, as Economist Staley urged, that governments must be prepared to make a "deep-going transformation in methods of work, in education, in administration, even in social institutions like the family and religion...