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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adviser: "The foreign exchange speculators got their way. We are going to build fewer houses and buy fewer cars in order to defend the dollar...
...dollars, last week's U.S. measures proved expensive. "We sure hope that we mousetrap some bastards with this," gloated one White House senior aide. And although traders named no names, they indicated that some speculators had been hurt. Said a veteran money dealer in Brussels: "One or two companies got their fingers burned right up to their armpits...
...never achieved that stature or authority. Blumenthal deserves some criticism; in addition to his early waffling on the dollar, he badly misread the state of the economy last January. On the other hand, he has been the target of sniping from the White House staff ever since they got the idea he was putting the knife into Bert Lance. Besides, Carter prefers to decide everything himself, listening first to one adviser, then another, and meanwhile his "team" voices a babble of conflicting ideas...
...wage-price guidelines as unfair and demanded a special session of Congress to establish mandatory controls. He also took a swing at the dollar-rescue program, contending that higher interest rates would hurt workers. The President's cold response, delivered by telephone to a forum in St. Louis: "We got about as much cooperation from Mr. Meany as we had expected...
...matter what the Administration may do. "There is no such thing as an uninterrupted period of expansion," says James H. Lorie, a professor of business administration at the University of Chicago. "The current expansion is 3½ years old. So it's past middle age. A downturn has got to be next." Some observers feel that it would be better to have a recession sooner rather than later. Says Washington University's Murray Weidenbaum, also a member of TIME'S Board of Economists: "We've now taken the painful medicine that will both slow down inflation...