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Most trade studies use demand models, but more attention needs to be given to supply problems. When a foreign producer penetrates a new market, he is likely to invest substantial resources in familiarizing the market with his product. I will take time to establish a service capability, acquire a reputation, and pry customers loose from their old familiar habits. These effects would not be reflected in price but they will shift the demand curve. One cannot simply reverse penetration of markets by price adjustments...
When will a President learn that disciplining America is like disciplining a child? It's more effective to reward the good than to punish the bad. Why not reward the child who eats his vegetables? Americans need incentives to save and invest [March 24], like raising interest ceilings for small savers and reducing or eliminating taxes on interest and dividends...
...these social and psychological causes of inflation will be excruciatingly difficult. Attitudes toward work and thrift have evolved over decades and can be changed only slowly. The most Important change would be to recognize that immediate consumption must be limited, and that the public needs to save and invest for tomorrow. Says Political Philosopher Dahrendorf: "Some stabilization of expectations
...staggering under an installment and mortgage debt load of more than $1 trillion. Yet even credit crunches create opportunities, and some canny consumers have found profits in the vortex of soaring interest rates. A Detroit magazine editor, for example, now sends his savings across the border to invest in the Canadian Bank of Nova Scotia, where six-month certificates yield 17.5% and up, or 2% more than is available Stateside. Two daughters of an affluent Birmingham, Mich., physician used $14,000 in low-interest Government student loans (see box) to invest in real estate and bank certificates...
...backed by a "substantial portion" of the estimated 200 million oz. of silver they hold. These bonds would pay a low rate of interest (estimated at 8%). One theory, advanced by Metals Dealer Andrew Racz, is that they were trying to raise money at low cost to invest in higher yielding (15%) U.S. Treasury bills, or even, as James Sinclair, another bullion broker, thinks, to buy more silver. But the prevailing belief was that Hunt, locked into a silver position that he could not sell out at any price he would accept, was in effect trying to turn his silver...