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More recently, supply economics has been captured by the opposite end of the philosophical spectrum. The easily documented decline of productivity growth is attributed to a reduced rate of capital formation and diminished incentives to work. Excessive business and personal taxation are the depressants which produce these unfortunate results. In its extreme Kemp-Roth form, the damage to capital formation and work effort by the tax system is said to be so great that massive tax relief would create more supply than demand and lower inflation. This is indeed a counter-Keynesian conclusion since it associates a huge increase...
...members of the "private army" of Muzorewa's rival, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, who finished second to Muzorewa in last April's "majority rule" election. Faced with guerrilla attacks on the outskirts of his capital and the continued exodus of whites, who are fleeing at the rate of 1,000 a month, the bishop explained that "ruthless" action was required. Said he: "We are going to succeed in solving the problems of the country once...
...ounce before settling back at week's end to $329. The Dow Jones industrial average, which had been rising since July, plunged 15 points in one day, the largest decline since last December. Other news was also depressing. Wholesale prices rose in August at an annual rate of 15.4%, which portends still higher consumer prices in the autumn, and unemployment climbed during the month from...
While the flight to gold shows that some investors remain worried about the long-term direction of the U.S. economy, the market decline early last week was considered to be a short-lived emotional response to higher interest rates. These both slow the economy and make bonds relatively more attractive than stocks. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker repeated that he is committed to throttling back the growth of money supply, and that interest rates would therefore remain high as long as the rate of inflation did. Indeed, the banks' prime rate for business loans climbed from...
First, says McLaughlin, governments must take stock of water supplies. "There has been very little work done on making an inventory of our water. Nobody intelligently can say that we have this much supply left or that we are depleting it at this rate...