Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter Administration's effort to ease the nation into a short and shallow business downturn in order to slow inflation increasingly resembles the attempts in 1916 by Russian noblemen to kill Rasputin: they fed Tsarina Alexandra's mystic poisoned teacakes and wine, then shot him three times, and finally had to drown him in St. Petersburg's icy Neva River. Despite record-high interest rates, the long awaited recession still refuses to materialize definitively...
Last week the Commerce Department reported that the nation's output of goods and services, which had declined at an annual rate of 2.3% in the second quarter, actually rose again by 2.4% in the July-September period. Since a recession is commonly defined as two consecutive quarters of economic decline, it thus will be early 1980 before experts can formally announce the arrival of a textbook recession. But the latest indications of growth were deceiving and cannot endure long. The upswing was due primarily to a temporary increase in consumer spending, as people who had been kept away...
Economists believe that the nation's business will decline again this fall. Nonetheless, signs of continued economic vigor abound. Homebuilding, which is usually hit hard by high interest rates, remains strong; housing starts actually rose by 4.2% in September, to an annual rate of 1.9 million. At the same time, the use of the nation's industrial capacity edged up above...
...just such evidence of economic strength that two weeks ago led Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker to push up interest rates to new highs and announce new measures to curb the inflationary growth of the nation's money sup ply. But the money stock actually expanded by $2.8 billion in the first week after the "Volcker Package" was announced, and the Fed immediately began tightening credit and forcing up interest rates still further. This drove the Dow Jones index of industrial stocks down an extra 24 points last week, renewing memories of the Great Crash that occurred 50 years...
Many brokers and banks bought stocks on their own as a gesture of confidence, and on Wednesday old John D. Rockefeller, the personification of American capitalism, gave his reassurance to the nation's investors. Said he: "In the 90 years of my life, depressions have come and gone. Prosperity has always returned, and will come again. Believing that the fundamental conditions of the country are sound, my son and I have been purchasing sound common stocks for some days...