Word: investments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some question whether a regular 3% or 4% growth rate will be nearly enough to handle the economy's enormous need for cash and credit. From the savings of citizens, the retained earnings of corporations and other sources, the U.S. last year generated $129 billion of new capital to invest. But the demands for capital have been greater still. During the inflationary boom of the late 1960s, the Government borrowed heavily on the capital markets to cover federal deficits that ran as high as $25 billion a year, and much of the money was used for economically unproductive purposes, notably...
...least an indirect interest in the market, through participation in mutual funds, pension funds and other institutions, number 100 million, or almost half the total U.S. population. The pensions that millions of citizens eventually will receive depend partly on the performance of the stocks in which their funds invest...
...seems that future demonstrations can take one of two paths. The Administration could invest thousands of dollars in video tape machines and dress photographers in riot gear for defense against demonstrators who would be understandably irate. When the video tape was suggested at a CRR hearing. Bowie responded favorably. (No longer would Bowie waste the CRR's time with flimsy evidence...
When NEDC decided it wanted to sponsor a Roxbury institute, it tried unsuccessfully to get grants from Model Cities and the Ford Foundation. Johnson said that out of the blue came the desire of the Merrill Trust to invest $1 million for a community program in upgrading ghetto businesses." Stanford University will receive $250,000 from the Merrill Trust...
...What guarantee are we going to have that someone is going to be sitting on the Board of Directors making top-level policy decisions saying that we're going to have to invest 10 per cent of our capital in, say, pollution control...