Word: investors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important differences. In both 1966 and 1969, the Federal Reserve Board tried to control the expansion of credit by restricting the money supply. But in 1966, the board moved clumsily, swerving at midyear from monetary expansion at a 6% yearly rate to contraction at a 2% rate. Credit evaporated, investor buying power disappeared, and stocks collapsed. This year the money supply has expanded at a modest annual rate of about 21% - just enough, FRB Chairman William McChesney Martin hopes, to accomplish "disinflation without deflation." There is no sign that the FRB will soon make money any easier...
...partners' pockets. But private capital can no longer hire the clerks and lease the computers needed to handle the flood of paperwork created by the huge increase in trading volume, nor can private money support the costly research staff demanded by today's increasingly sophisticated investor...
...Though the Japanese complain about the injustice of textile quotas, they maintain a closed-door policy at home, shutting out considerable amounts of U.S. goods and capital. Two years ago, a committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development reported that "no other advanced country confronts the foreign investor with the sort of obstacles presented by Japan...
...defending companies in antitrust cases, he has flailed conglomerates for evils ranging from excessive economic concentration to "human dislocation." Proud that Republicans "have historically been vigorous enforcers of antitrust," McLaren is becoming the most active-and visible-trustbuster since the days of Teddy Roosevelt; his broadsides have helped chill investor enthusiasm for multimarket companies...
...will probably be passed then, though insurgent leaders intend to mobilize all of the 380,000 shareholders. One of them, Giorgio Pisano, the manager of Candido magazine, vowed: "The battle has just begun." At the very least, Italian businessmen have seen an impressive sign of small-investor muscle. Other European industrialists cannot write off the incident as a show of Italian emotionalism. On the same day as the Montedison revolt, a determined band of West German shareholders did battle with the directors of the NSU auto manufacturing firm. As a result, they won the promise of a higher price...