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...reported last week that unemployment inched down to 8.3% of the labor force in September, from 8.4% in August, continuing the slow reduction that economists have expected. A darker side to the figures: the number of workers jobless for 27 weeks or longer rose by 155,000 to a post-World War II high of 1.6 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICY: Ford Climbs on the Tax-Cut Bandwagon | 10/13/1975 | See Source »

Sooner or later, however, governments must act to curb inflation?and risk recession?by curtailing spending and restricting the growth of money supply. Many economists indeed blame all post-World War II recessions on overly zealous anti-inflationary policy. But that criticism obscures a vital point. In a society that operates by private decision-making rather than central command, governments must make difficult judgments on the exact mix of tax, spending and money-supply policies needed to nudge businessmen and consumers into the "right" decisions on how much to buy, build and borrow. Inevitably, the fallible humans who run treasury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Capitalism Survive? | 7/14/1975 | See Source »

America's post-World War II baby boom has swollen the traditional crime-prone age bracket (14 to 24) as never before?and possibly never again. In 1950 there were 24 million young Americans in this age group. A decade later it was 27 million, and now it is 44 million; the bulge will not disappear until the 1980s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: THE CRIME WAVE | 6/30/1975 | See Source »

...cure." Even after that, in his mind, going back to the old era of hell-for-leather growth would only start "an endless cycle of inflation and deflation." His long-run goal is for the Japanese economy to expand at about a 5% annual rate-only half the average post-World War II pace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Taking a Lower Road | 6/30/1975 | See Source »

...board members are slightly more optimistic; Otto Eckstein forecasts a jobless rate of 7.7% by the end of 1976. Even that would mean that after a year and a half of recovery, the unemployment rate would be as severe as it was at the bottom of the worst previous post-World War II recession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OUTLOOK/BOARD OF ECONOMISTS: The Upturn: Sensational, But Lousy | 5/26/1975 | See Source »

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