Word: moring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, economists generally agree that the economy now shows plenty of signs of losing momentum. As interest rates climbed to the highest peak in more than a century, housing starts fell sharply and the bond markets approached collapse. Banks, the principal buyers of municipal bonds, were short of funds and...
The stock market, a leading indicator that often foretells the economy's performance in months to come, shuddered through a disastrous year. The Dow-Jones industrial average dropped 19%, from a May high of 969 to a December low under 784. The conglomerates took a beating; LTV and Gulf and...
Investors were depressed by the fading of the unrealistic Viet Nam peace hopes that they had held in the spring, and more recently by warnings of a forthcoming economic decline. The worst depressant in the market undoubtedly has been tight money. The market frequently falls before recessions and rises when...
Economists tend to agree on the business profile for 1970: a rise in jobless ranks to 4¼% or 4½% of the labor force; 4% price inflation, probably tapering off toward year's end; sluggish 2% real growth in the over-all economy, which will expand from $933 billion to $985...
In the decade that opens next month, thoughtful business leaders realize they face responsibilities that go beyond the traditional definition of business, and they seem ready to do more than merely pay lip service to them. Next to inflation, recession and the need to end the Viet Nam War, the...