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Number of times McDonald is mentioned in The Harper's Index Book...
...leading stocks kept climbing, many others did not. Celanese, for example, had dropped from 118 to 66 since 1927, Philip Morris from 41 to 12. The speculators also did not seem to notice that the allegedly sound economy had started slowing. By October of 1929 the Federal Reserve index of industrial production had dropped from 126 to 117 since June. Homebuilding had been down for several years, and farming had been in trouble since the early 1920s...
...Wall Street. Despite a lukewarm reaction in the New York financial community to the President's statements, prices on the Big Board steadied, perhaps from exhaustion. The Dow average eked out a .33 gain to close the week at 1950.76. Two bits of news helped: the Consumer Price Index rose at an annual rate of only 2.1% in September, less than half the 5.8% pace in August; the GNP grew at an annual rate of 3.8%, after adjustment for inflation, in the third quarter, up from 2.5% in the second quarter. Those figures seemed to indicate that the American economy...
...bearish rout on the stock exchange turned facile assumptions about the 1988 race into so much bull. It silenced complaints that the campaign was devoid of cutting issues and dashed Republican hopes of an election predicated on the Reaganite themes of stability and prosperity. The political futures index tilted toward the Democrats, as mayhem in the markets revived fears of recession. Four times in this century the Democrats have regained the White House following a Republican incumbency, each time against the backdrop of a sharp economic downturn...
...above a certain income level. "There's a big distinction between entitlements for poor people and entitlements for everybody," says Ruben Mettler, chairman of TRW. Another suggested method to get entitlement costs under control would be to reduce the cost-of-living adjustment from 100% of the consumer price index...