Word: greenspan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Take the money, the limousine, the Jamaican cook and run, Barbara Walters, before Alan Greenspan catches on to who is really ruining the economy...
Labor, State, Commerce are there. Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, is on hand, fingertips together, eyes on the ceiling. So is Jim Lynn, head of the Office of Management and Budget. Ford's special agent at these sessions is his economic assistant, L. William Seidman, fresh from his morning 1 %mile jog in Dumbarton Oaks Park. Other Cabinet officers and bureaucrats move in and out according to subject...
...Alan Greenspan, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, made another telling point: "There are so many different types of unemployment that they require very different remedies." Other witnesses advanced special ideas. Reginald Jones, chairman of General Electric Co., commented that tax incentives to industry would go a long way toward cutting unemployment by encouraging businessmen to invest in job-creating expansion. Said Economist Robert Eisner of Northwestern University: "If you want to create more jobs, cut the payroll tax"-i.e., the Social Security tax. Since an employer pays part of the tax as a fixed percentage...
...discounted for inflation. But 1976 has got off to a faster start than that; real G.N.P. in the first quarter could easily rise at an annual rate of 7% or more, v. 4.9% in the last three months of 1975. The recovery "is stronger than we expected," says Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. "The data we have for January and February indicate the economy is moving somewhat better than the forecast we made back in early December...
...Though Greenspan speaks for an Administration that is seeking to tone down or turn to advantage the economic issue in the election, the figures back him up. Last week the Government reported that its index of leading indicators rose a very strong 2.2% in January. That was the largest jump since last July. The index, which consists of twelve yardsticks of future demand and output (examples: new orders, building permits, average work week), has proved accurate on the whole since it was revised early in 1975. It began turning up last spring, accurately foreshadowing the end of the recession...