Word: investments
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...whole, the country's total outstanding debt is more than 180% of the GNP, almost a third higher than the postwar average. Consumer debt totals some $4.3 trillion, with total business debt about half that. Banks traditionally limited the sum of their loans to about 55% of assets and invested the remainder in government bonds and low-risk corporate instruments. But those loans now make up uncomfortably close to 70% of assets. Today both sides of the credit equation are less willing to take a chance: the debtor doubts that the money he borrows to invest will...
...develop -- but wait." Perform the R. and D., in short, but go to production only if the imagined threat clearly emerges and if the cost is manageable. A more idealistic version advocated by Seth Bonder, president of a Michigan think tank called Vector Research, would encourage the Pentagon to invest in R. and D. but actually build new weapons only if they would correct an impending imbalance with the Soviet Union; it should pass up those that would give the U.S. a destabilizing military advantage...
...dream? Hardly, said Bush. The same President who last year despaired that the nation has "more will than wallet" last week declared that "we'll do what it takes to invest in America's future . . . The money is there...
Overseer Peter Wood '64, who was elected to the Board on a pro-divestment slate, also cautions against moving too fast to reinvest in South Africa. He says Americans are too prone to invest minor reform there with more importance than they merit...
...proved to be contagious. Rates on ten-year Treasury bonds have climbed from 7.84% to 8.4% during the past month. Money-market speculators sent rates higher because they know that the Japanese, who typically buy as much as 40% of U.S. long-term bond offerings, will be disinclined to invest in U.S. Treasury securities unless American bonds offer significantly higher yields than equivalent Japanese or West German paper...