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Word: inflationitis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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The worries are reflected primarily on Wall Street, repository of the hopes and dreams of 100 million Americans who directly or indirectly have a stake in the stock market. Vexed by the vagaries of Viet Nam, jittery about symptoms of inflation and talk of higher taxes to come, the stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: The Rattles in the Engine | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

Changes of Mood. General Motors' troubles and Wall Street's gyrations crystalized a distinct change of mood on the part of the American people. For 62 fat months, prosperity has fed itself because Americans have spent, lent, borrowed and invested with confidence. They have felt correctly that jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: The Rattles in the Engine | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

Actually, Johnson could have tempered the current excesses by calling for higher taxes early this year-and then he could have rescinded the tax hike before November. Now it is probably too close to election for him to risk a tax increase, unless a major expansion in Viet Nam spending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: The Rattles in the Engine | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

Still, Detroiters hunched and hoped that they could defy the statistical omens, if only they could count on the continuation of consumer confidence-the supreme factor in auto sales. Not only has that confidence been worn thin by all the jabberwocky about inflation and taxes, but since January the industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: The Rattles in the Engine | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

Bitten Bettors. With Britain struggling to defeat inflation at home, modernize its outmoded industrial plant, and raise exports so as to end its balance-of-payments deficit, most of Callaghan's countrymen were braced for higher income, sales, tobacco and liquor taxes, and perhaps higher down payments on installment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Out of the Black Case | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

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