Word: market
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Betterment by 1) International cooperation by direct official means to restore Europe's purchasing power, 2) adjustment of tariff so farmers can buy manufactures in a competitive market, 3) readjustment and lowering of transportation rates, 4) completion of internal waterway systems for cheaper transportation and development of water-powers for cheaper fertilizer, 5) stimulation of cooperative marketing, establishing of a Government export agency to prevent the export surplus from undermining home prices, 6) suitable credits, 7) reduction of the margin between the prices at which the farmer buys and at which he sells...
...been produced. The savings banks, which in Manhattan have been paying 4% on deposits, have decided to continue that rate. But there is further talk of reducing the New York Federal Reserve rediscount rate from 3½ to 3% in order to bring it into closer relationship in the market rates. Yet opposition to such a step has developed, on the grounds that the present surplus of funds will not long continue, that inflation may be caused by too low rates, and that bankers are trying to promote Mr. Coolidge's election by reducing interest charges to stimulate business...
...oats over 10?, thus adding over $500,000,000 in value to the corn crop and about $125,000,000 to the oat crop. As far as the former is concerned, rising prices of moderate extent for all staple grains is much more beneficial than simply a runaway market in one of them, even wheat. Prosperity in the latter case is confined to certain sections and to specialized farms, whereas under the former and existing conditions it is spread throughout the country...
...Chicago Board of Trade has had its troubles ever since the War. As a result of the speculative crash in the grain markets in 1920, the "farm bloc" imposed many new restrictions upon the organized grain market, and farm organizations have resolved to assume control of the free and open grain market or else deliberately put it out of business...
Just what the realization of this plan would do to the speculative wheat market is conjectural. Some hold that it would doom it, since the farmers would hold all the grain and could corner shorts or ruin bulls at will. Others believe open speculation in grain is necessary and will continue. All agree, silently or aloud, that the move will not end grain speculation. The farmer will be compelled to speculate on grain held because of fluctuations in foreign markets, and the inevitable uncertainties of the factors of supply and demand...