Word: patman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington hearing last week, the chairman of the House Banking Committee stared at one of the nation's top managers of money. Grumbled Texas Representative Wright Patman: "You can absolutely veto everything the President does. You have the power to veto what the Congress does, and the fact is that you have done it. You are going...
...object of Patman's wrath was ascetic-looking Alfred Hayes, president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank and a ranking member of the U.S.'s powerful central banking system. For three decades, Wright Patman has fumed and fussed that the Federal Reserve System is too secretive, too independent, too insensitive to the hopes of small borrowers. A sharecropper's son, he often charges that it is a tool of Wall Street bankers...
Immediately after moving up to the chairmanship of the Banking Committee last year, Patman started preparing what has become one of the farthest reaching investigations in the Federal Reserve's 50-year history. Patman has a team of economists and consultants studying the system with a critical eye, intends to call twelve top non-Government economists to the stand by month's end, and is pressing for new legislation to curb the central bank...
Expansion or Stability? The controversy comes at a pivotal time. Calmer critics than Patman accuse the Federal Reserve of starting, or at least contributing to, the recessions of 1958 and 1960 by hiking interest rates and reducing the credit supply in its zeal to head off inflation. Now that some prices are rising anew, the central bankers again must ponder the question of whether to battle inflation at the risk of nipping the economy's three-year-old expansion. In recent months Chairman
...Patman charged that the Federal Reserve has already contributed to high unemployment by restricting the flow of money, fears that the Fed will further tighten up this year. If the tax cut proves to be too great a stimulus to the economy, the Fed may have to do just that. The betting in many business circles is that after the tax cut passes, the discount rate will be raised from 3.5% to 4%-which would make commercial loan money more expensive to come by. But Johnson is an easy-money man, and he has a chance to moderate any tight...