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...world's banking federation is concerned, wage and price control represents an elementary remedy for monetary-instability/ depression threats. That is, the problem of inflation, in their view, consists of improving the profitability of currencies as investment purchases (not the speculative return on hot money exchanged in the money marker). The actual material not reflected in inflated money concerns them only peripherally, as a limiting factor. The simple device of "holding the line" on wages can augment rates of return on currency (in this case the dollar) and abort speculative runs against the endangered currency. In other words, the only...
...birthplace during June. Most of them were Texans, although out-of-state license tags dot the asphalt parking lot. They come to see some history on "a ten-minute stop off the road," and politics are unimportant to a father motioning his kids closer to the historical marker while he peers into the range finder of a camera. "You don't have to be an L.B.J. fan to come here," an Oklahoman explains...
...name were an individual's, that would sound like the sort of marker a winning gambler might pick up in some fantastic, high-stakes crap game. In fact, it is a similar form of IOU-a sample of the unsecured and loosely regulated kind of corporate credit known as commercial paper. Until the collapse of the Penn Central, commercial paper was the nation's fastest-growing type of credit, but now it has become a prime source of financial worry. By issuing commercial paper, U.S. corporations have saddled themselves with an enormous burden of short-term debt that...
Since the beginning of the nation, white Americans have suffered from a deep inner uncertainty as to who they really are. One of the ways that has been used to simplify the answer has been to seize upon the presence of black Americans and use them as a marker, a symbol of limits, a metaphor for the "outsider." Many whites could look at the social position of blacks and feel that color formed an easy and reliable gauge for determining to what extent one was or was not American. Perhaps that is why one of the first epithets that many...
Lexington is conspicuously proud of its part in American history. The common is studded with plaques and fringed by buildings with historical marker signs on them. Most of the shutters have little Minute-Man cut-outs, and a large restaurant on main street is named after them...