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...REAL ESTATE: To avoid paying income taxes, some American real estate owners hold large sums of cash in numbered Swiss accounts. How can they ever use the money? They have the Swiss bank arrange to "buy" some of their properties with money from their own anonymous accounts. In that way, the money is repatriated to the U.S. One real estate man, for example, "sold" a piece of property for nearly $1,000,000 but did not have to pay taxes on the deal since the property had cost no more than that when he purchased it. There was a further...
International money men seem convinced that the next tinkering with the world's wobbly monetary system will involve a general realignment of most major currency values. One tip-off came last week from Karl Schiller, West Germany's increasingly influential Economic Minister. In a TV interview, Schiller substantially hedged Kurt Kiesinger's month-old promise that "the mark will never be revalued while I am Chancellor." That promise, said Socialist Schiller, binds the German government only until next September's national elections. More important, he added, it applies only to an isolated German move to raise...
...franc and pound. Last week both currencies rallied a bit in international trading. The pound gained after Britain reported that rising exports had lessened its chronic trade deficit during November. The franc rose even though France announced a $200 million November trade deficit, triple that of October. The money was stronger because, for the moment, most Frenchmen seemed to be accepting De Gaulle's stringent curbs. But the real test will begin early next year, when unions are expected to demand pay increases...
These exchange rates can be altered without disrupting the dollar-gold relationship, which underpins the whole system. Moreover, the dollar remains strong in world money markets despite U.S. price inflation...
Four years ago, Minneapolis-based Control Data Corp. brought out its model 6600 computer, the largest machine of its type in the world. Pride soon turned to problems as debugging took longer than expected, and the company began losing money. To make matters worse, Thomas Watson's IBM an nounced that it would bring out its own supercomputer, the 360/91. As a result, many potential purchasers held off buying the multimillion-dollar 6600 machine, and Control Data lost as many as 50 sales. When IBM was slow in producing the 360/91, and then turned out only a few before...