Word: inflationitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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As stock prices have meandered near the bottom of their winter trough, Wall Street has for weeks yearned for a reason to cheer. Without the war, most investors see a resumption of unstrained economic growth, with lower taxes and interest rates, less wage and price inflation, a smaller federal deficit...
In hope of forestalling border taxes and surcharges, West Germany has pressured the Common Market to speed up its own Kennedy Round tariff cuts without corresponding acceleration by the U.S. Such action would bolster the inflation-shrunk U.S. trade surplus by hundreds of millions of dollars over the next 31...
Brutal Diagnosis. The need is urgent because Israel's economy has been ailing for months. During its early years of headlong economic growth-at average rates of 9% a year-Israel's imports raced beyond its exports, resulting in a chronic balance of payments deficit. To right the...
The consequences of the tight supply and growing demand for capital are postponed projects, frustrated entrepreneurs, and an inflation in the price of money. Interest rates have been rising fairly steadily since World War II, are now the highest since the 1920s. In Brazil, interest is typically calculated by the...
The obvious keys to attracting capital are economic good sense and political sanity. Without those, foreign capital will not flow in and domestic capital will flow out. When governments begin to welsh, devaluate and expropriate, capital flees. Such was the case with Indonesia under Sukarno and Brazil under Goulart. And...