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...companies ideally tend to raise long-term investment money in the stock and bond markets but go to the money market for short-term borrowings to cover operating expenses. The move out of savings is badly hurting the thrift institutions. They face a tremendous competitive disadvantage and a sharp outflow of funds because the Federal Reserve's Regulation Q prohibits them from paying more than 5½% on passbook savings. A bill before the Senate would slowly phase out the interest rate ceilings by 1990. Meanwhile, says Robert Garver, president of Boston's Charlestown Savings Bank: "The money...
...outflow from mutual savings banks in September hit $1 billion, a record for that month. Some banks are so pressed for funds that they have stopped making mortgage loans. Federal bank officials are sufficiently worried that they are preparing contingency plans to rescue any troubled institutions...
...sales has declined during most of the year so far, and car sales are falling. The index of leading indicators has dipped for three straight months. From March to April, industrial production dropped 1% and housing starts fell 2%. The nation's savings banks had a record net outflow of $1.1 billion last month. Since savings banks provide much mortgage money, the pace of new housing starts is likely to slow even further in the months ahead...
...Some of the money could be returned as tax credits to the poor and to people who need to use much gasoline in their work, including farmers. The rest of the funds could be used, to finance energy development at home. By restraining imports, the U.S. would slow the outflow of American capital to the OPEC cartel and would make still more of it available for investment in domestic energy sources...
...seems clear that without internal and external pressure, the Nationalist regime will not find it in its interest to make substantive concessions to the black majority. By threatening the very foundation of white prosperity, continuous and substantial capital outflow is one of our best hopes for inducing the white population, or at least certain critical factions within that population, to begin good faith negotiations with the leaders of the African, "colored" and Asian majority. But in the event that accommodation is not achieved, at the very least the scaling down of multinational corporate presence would put the regime...