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...that meets in Havana in early September. What remains a question is the attitude of Saudi Arabia. When the Saudis increased their daily oil production in early July by 1 million bbl., there were hints that they would do so for three to six months. How long this higher output will be sustained could depend on how the Saudis rate U.S. Middle East policy, especially the stand on the Palestinians...
...skeptical, so such policies do not work any more. The public has also lost confidence in the prospect of a stable policy in the future, because monetary trends have been jumping all over the place." Increases in the money supply, he asserts, merely produce more inflation, not expansion of output...
...annual average of just over 3%. The first symptom of trouble struck in the 1970s, when gains started averaging half of that. They tumbled to 1.6% in 1977 and .4% in 1978. Now that most important measure of an economy's efficiency is showing the most alarming decline. Output per hour worked in private business dropped at an annual rate of 2.8% in this year's first quarter and 3.8% in the second quarter. Only the U.S.'s highly efficient farms stopped a much more dismal performance; not counting them, private productivity from April to June dropped...
...years, nonfarm private productivity increased only 27%-the same as in Britain, but less than half as much as in France, West Germany and Italy and less than a quarter as much as in Japan. In 1950 it took seven Japanese or three German workers to match the industrial output of one American; today two Japanese and about 1.3 Germans do as well. Says Economist Arthur Laffer: "The U.S. is the fastest 'undeveloping' country in the world...
...spend cash on costly environmental, health and safety equipment rather than on modern machines. Earlier this year, the congressional Joint Economic Committee deplored the fact that U.S. industry in 1977 had to spend $6.9 billion for pollution-control equipment "that does not contribute directly to the production of measured output...