Word: pechman
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Otto Eckstein $992 1.9% 4.4% 6.3% 4.3% 4.6% David Grove $981.3 .9% 4.3% 5.2% 4.4% 4.8% Walter Heller $988 .2% .4% .6% 4.3% to 4.5% 4.7% to 5% Robert Nathan $980 1.5% 4% plus 5.5% 4.5% minus near 5% Joseph Pechman $990 2.2% 4% 6.2% 4.5% 4.8% Arthur Okun $987 2% 4% 6% 4.5% minus 5% to 5.5% Beryl Sprinkle $966 none...
...PECHMAN: The Administration has a role to play in price policy in the vast number of enterprises that are subject to Government regulation. We have hardly begun to make a national policy for these regulated industries...
...half the rate on ordinary income, and no more than 27½% in any case. Defenders of capital gains have a compelling argument: people must be encouraged to take risks with capital if a private economy is to thrive. On the other hand, many experts agree with Economist Joseph Pechman of the Brookings Institution, who holds that the present ceiling is too low. To discourage speculation in securities, the holding period might be extended from six months to one year. Congress also needs to redefine and limit the scope of investments eligible for capital gains. They now include not only...
...probably rank above the rest on the influence chart. One is Joseph Pechman, 46, the short, greying economist at the Brookings Institution, who importantly shaped the form of the tax cut and now is lobbying for a reduction in excise taxes. Pechman went to the University of Wisconsin with Heller, landed his first Government job (in the Treasury) through Heller after World War II, now frequently discusses the economy with the CEA chief. Specializing at the moment in federal-state relations, Pechman this week will hand to the President a lengthy report that recommends methods for channeling a portion...
...Pechman shares honors in influence with Paul Samuelson, 49, M.I.T.'s globe-hopping author of a bestselling university economics text and a close adviser to Johnson-as he had been to Kennedy...