Word: economists
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Winter's Cold. "The worst is over," says United California Bank Economist Raymond Jallow in Los Angeles. Jallow and other economists believe that the price spurt in the past months was due mainly to the economic effects of last winter's cold weather. Moreover, Townsend-Greenspan & Co., the New York consulting firm headed by Alan Greenspan, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists and formerly Gerald Ford's chief economic adviser, notes that "the chances of a significant acceleration in inflation rates as the economy moves into 1978 appear to be diminishing...
Many business and financial leaders remain skeptical about the Administration, despite Carter's conservative economic policies. Says Albert H. Cox Jr., chief economist at Merrill Lynch in New York: "The spending plans of Congress and the proposals by the Administration are a parade of inflationary announcements. Somebody has got to hold the line on spending." Carter has promised to do just that by vetoing bills that he considers to be too costly. But he further added to businessmen's fears last week by stepping up his support for a consumer protection agency, which most of them believe would...
...observer than in some objective measure. Republican Alan Greenspan, chairman of Ford's Council of Economic Advisers, believes that Burns "has done an extraordinarily effective job, especially in the economic and political environment of the last several years." On the other hand, Brookings Institution Economist Arthur Okun, a liberal Democrat who was Lyndon Johnson's chief economist, assesses Burns' performance harshly: "There is no way to exonerate monetary policy from the disastrous economic performance of the last six years." It is a measure of the Chairman's skill as a Washington power and survivor that...
...fervent (and flawed) argument that as population increases, resources will soon run out if industrial development rushes on unchecked. One of the few academics who have rallied to the pro-growth side of the debate so far has been Britain's Wilfred Beckerman, a witty, long-haired Oxford economist who has emerged as a kind of St. George against those he calls "the eco-doomsters...
Despite such programs, the real problem is the resistance of governments, including the U.S., to stimulate their economies because of inflationary fears. The only way to cut unemployment among youth, says Harvard's liberal Economist Otto Eckstein, is "to get the economy going so we have more jobs." When the adults go back to work, the kids will not be far behind...