Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stock prices, in terms of 1929 dollars, have risen but 68% in a period when the size of the U.S. economy has doubled. Furthermore, the market today has little of the speculative froth of the past; only 1.1% of the value of the listed issues is held on margin...
...statement, Galbraith said that buying on the market may reach the type of speculative hysteria which led to the 1929 depression. To forestall this possibility, he proposed that stock buying should be conducted with a 100 percent margin instead of a 60 percent margin...
Smith commented, however, that breakers and underwriters have played only a minor role in the rise of the stock market. He feels that it is confidence in sound values, not the level of the margin, which moves a person to invest his money...
...present conditions do not change, be recommended putting all stock exchanges on a cash basis, by raising the margin from 60 to 100 percent...
...necessary, the government should institute tax regulation on stock speculations, as well as raising the margin to 100 percent, he said. "Those who react in horror to this suggestion would also deplore its alternative, another crash," he added...