Word: inflationitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The December rise, reflecting mainly higher cost of food, medical care and rent, amounted to only 0.2% over the November level-one of the lowest in creases in 23 months of inflation. But rising wholesale costs of such items as metal and lumber will continue to ripple through the economy...
Inflationary Strains. The U.S. economy is indeed moving much too fast for its own good, and three Washington reports last week reflected the resulting strains. They showed the fastest price escalation since 1951, the lowest export surplus since the Depression and the highest interest rate on a Government security since...
The meager 1968 trade surplus, only $726 million last year compared with $7.8 billion as recently as 1964, is an other painful result of inflation. Although the total volume of U.S. exports actually rose, climbing domestic price levels attracted a torrent of imports. If some $2.5 billion of U.S. exports...
Signs of Slowdown. Amid such continuing symptoms of inflation, there were a few signs that the economy could be starting to slow down. Many of its so-called "leading indicators"-statistics that point to future trends-have stopped rising. Normally, such change portends a general slackening in about six months...
The unimpressive U.S. record of industrial safety arises mainly from neglect. The subject enjoys a low priority in a nation more concerned with war and peace, civil strife and inflation. Management and union indifference, split jurisdiction and bickering among enforcement agencies and gaps in protective laws all contribute to the...