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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even before the opening bell rang, the traders, specialists, clerks and messengers who work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange sensed that Wednesday would not be an ordinary day. The Federal Reserve Board's decision to raise the prime rate had already rocked the stock market, triggering a frenzied sell-off that had sent the market plummeting by a startling 26 points on Tuesday-the worst setback it had suffered in nearly six years. Now, at brokers' booths and trading stations, everybody was fretting about what worried investors would do next. "We're going...
...actions are very much along that line. They will give the domestic public and foreigners the sense that we really are going to come to grips with inflation." Grove concedes that a dramatic and determined" credit squeeze would depress business activity and push up the unemployment rate. He also thinks the stock market had good reason to flop: "Some of the doubting Thomases who believed we would have at most a mild recession now realize we are going to have a real recession that could significantly reduce profits." Nonetheless, Grove, like Sprinkel, believes that the recession will be less severe...
...Eurodollars, which have been one of the major sources of funds flowing into the United States," pumping up credit availability and increasing inflation. "But the key and by far the most important change is to switch to a policy of constraining money supply as distinct from manipulating interest rates." Greenspan grants that "for an interim period, interest rates could be highly unstable; the prime rate could easily go up to 16%." But he would have gone further than Fed Chairman Volcker: "I would also have announced some major curtailments of federal subsidy programs for credit, such as programs to subsidize...
...less gradual approach we adopt, the better chance we have to succeed, to turn the corner. I am very encouraged that part of Volcker's approach is an attempt to deal also with the problems posed by the Eurocurrency market. He emphasized more than before the rate of money supply growth on this market, rather than interest rates. That is the right emphasis...
...deep as 1974," says Eckstein, a master of computerized forecasting who runs his own company. "They are finally jamming on the brakes, having done too little for a long time." But late as the switch is, Eckstein believes, "it's going to work. The chances are the inflation rate, currently 13.1%, will drop below 9% by February." But Eckstein sees a darker side: "There is no question that the economy is now going to turn down quite sharply. We are forecasting that unemployment, now 5.8%, will hit 8% by the second half of next year." Still, Eckstein thinks that...