Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...balance, the board sees the economy remaining in recession until perhaps the summer of 1980. The total slide in the nation's output of goods and services would be anywhere from about 2% to 4%. Inflation will remain locked in double digits for the rest of 1979, but could edge down somewhat next year...
...enable it to keep a day-to-day eye on what really matters?the money supply?and to feed just enough new cash and credit into the economy to prevent a crunch. Yet something very much like a credit crunch may be the only thing that can break the nation's addiction to easy money. The inflation psychology of spending to beat price rises is becoming a part of the national psyche...
...decade-long recession recur exactly 50 years later? Many conditions today look frighteningly similar to those of late 1929. Then the panic was spawned by the Federal Reserve's attempt to nip speculation by raising the discount rate a full percentage point from 5% to 6%. The nation's banks in 1929 had built up a pyramid of foreign debt. National City Bank judged that Peru had a "bad debt record, adverse moral and political risk, bad internal debt situation"-and then lent the country $90 million that was soon defaulted. Wall Street banks today have $48.7 billion...
Some economists now wonder if the nation has so successfully insulated itself from a 1929-type depression that it is condemned to 13% or worse inflation. Robert Heilbroner argues that the postwar measures to avoid another Crash and Depression have "put a floor under the downward movement of the economy." This guarantee against disaster, in Heilbroner's view, has changed economic expectations so much that corporations raise prices and unions demand higher wages more recklessly than they otherwise would. The result is faster inflation. Thus the cure for the Great Crash, seen from this perspective, has created side effects...
...actions. See story on page 3. For an explanation of the Fed's new approach to monetary policy, see page 7. In St. Louis, officers of the Federal Reserve Bank there were pleased because they had long advocated such a move. See story on page 6. In the nation's money markets, large certificates of deposit and other short-term instruments quickly matched the one-point rise in the discount rate. See story on page 2. Foreign-exchange traders, happy about the Fed's actions, sent the U.S. dollar up by 2%; gold fell more than...