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...Pinch & Punch. What did the signs add up to? Answers ranged from a breather (Dwight Eisenhower) to a serious recession (Texas' easy-money Democratic Congressman Wright Patman). Various economists and businessmen called it recession, rolling readjustment, healthy adjustment, mild cyclical adjustment, slowdown, shakedown downturn, downtrend, sidewise movement, plateau, leveling off, period of hesitation, soft period, temporary cyclical swing in long-term growth, polka-dot prosperity with the spots getting bigger...
...hemisphere producers are grumbling loudly. "I've always felt [the Americans] were fair-weather friends," said an official of the Canadian Metal Mining Association. "When the pinch is on-wham! Someone starts talking tariffs." Peruvians say that any tariff hike, no matter how small, will put most of the country's lead and zinc producers out of business, cost the country 14% of its export income...
...have laid it on too thick. Now Martin, who is no man to overstay the market, finally agreed with many businessmen that the risks of deflation outweigh the problems of inflation. He wants the U.S. to understand that just as the Federal Reserve carefully-and correctly-set out to pinch the inflationary bubble off the boom, so it also stands ready to ease credit to help prevent a slide into recession...
...borrows v. an average 2.78% for the Treasury itself. The ceiling also costs the U.S. money in departments that have nothing to do with the Treasury. Said one Washington economist: "I've seen the Navy cut back a program because it was afraid to spend money during a pinch, fire trained workers, then hire new workers later on and train them all over again when the pinch was over...
...told, Japan's industrial production may drop as much as 10% this year as a result of the government's campaign. Yet few Japanese see signs that the credit pinch will push the economy into serious deflation. For one thing, Japan's traditionally thrifty industrialists have strong cash reserves to fall back on. While net profits rose 23.1% between June and December 1956, companies increased dividends by only 2.2% (to 14.1%), retained the bulk of their earnings. As for Japan's consumers, heavy savings from past years (12% of disposable income v.7% in the U.S.) plus...