Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question of the declining birth rate is one of the greatest problems of modern France and is a matter of grave concern to politicians and public spirited...
...confident but mistaken predictions that rediscount rates would be increased have proceeded partly from advocates of the classical theory that rediscount rates should stand above open market rates, and partly from apprehensive speculators in a temporarily bear stock market. The opinion of the latter group can be disregarded. But that of the former is entitled to genuine consideration. Undoubtedly as a general thing the bank rate should be above the market rate, and undoubtedly just the opposite is the case today. It may be that the Reserve authorities' decision to leave rates unchanged has been to some extent shaped...
...this has been made impossible by the unjustifiable amounts of money taken from them by the government under the terms of the Reserve Act in 1919-21, under the euphemism of "franchise taxes. The Reserve Banks owe the government nothing, and should pay it nothing, except a fair rate of interest on government deposits. Certainly the British government, which needs funds more acutely than ours, should not think of profiteering at the expense of the Bank of England in any such way. Before a theoretically correct rediscount policy can be pursued by the Reserve Banks, such unjust and publicly harmful...
...Photographic department has also progressed rapidly. Individual photographs to the number of 170 were taken this week at Notman's, and at the present rate, it is expected that 470 will be finished by Saturday night...
...test will make possible 100% accuracy in diagnosis and complete cure of the disease, Dr. Wassermann believes that it will enable the forces which are already fighting tuberculosis with well-understood methods to get a stranglehold on it in its earliest stages and greatly reduce the present death rate...