Word: moring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PRICES. Inflation will abate, but not soon enough or substantially enough to cheer about. Recessions are usually slow to take the steam out of prices, and a tight money policy requires months to produce results. In fact, high interest rates will continue to add to inflation until they start to...
The Board of Economists expects the cost of living index, which has been rising at a 13% rate for months, will be going up at a pace of 9% or a bit more next December. The economists admit, however, that they and almost all the other experts have grossly underestimated...
A most discouraging aspect of rising oil prices, said Okun, is that the recession will only temporarily and modestly constrain inflation. At very best, the rate of price increases will come down to 8%. After the 1974-75 recession, inflation was 5%, which at that time was considered "intolerable, horrible...
The deficit may well be swelled by a tax cut, if not in 1980 then in 1981. Congress has many ideas for reducing Social Security taxes; on Jan. 1, they will rise from $1,404 to $1,588 a year for anybody earning $25,900 or more. The Board of...
Only a few years ago, the orthodox wisdom was that the U.S. would never suffer such hyperinflation, but that if it ever did, the whole economy would be shattered and the democratic political system would be endangered. Yet in 1979 the economy showed a remarkable resiliency and a resistance to...