Word: rightnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...markets stable, the Fed's so-called Open Market Desk in New York was forced to begin making more and more money available to banks in order to satisfy demand for funds. Indeed, though the Fed's own inflation-cooling monetary growth target was 4.5%, which is just about right, the Open Market Desk's operations after March were actually expanding the money supply at an annual rate of close...
...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...
JOSEPH PECHMAN: "Volcker is headed in the right direction," says the director of economic studies at Brookings. But Pechman fears the move will increase chances that the recession will be longer and deeper than expected. He says that "unemployment will hit 8% sooner than expected" and might go even higher. To curb inflation without pressing down too hard on the economy, Pechman wishes that the Carter Administration would institute a more vigorous wage-price policy to supplement the Federal Reserve moves. Says he: "We ought to try, somehow, to have business and labor moderate their price and wage demands...
...debentures, some Wall Street underwriters anticipated a field day. To be sure, interest rates were expected to go up another notch in late October, but by moving up the launching date two weeks, IBM and its principal underwriters, Salomon Brothers and Merrill Lynch, were confident that the timing was right. It was hideously wrong. The bond issue turned out to be perhaps the greatest underwriting fiasco in Wall Street history...
...assure him that the U.S. would not intervene on behalf of Gairy, a bizarre advocate of voodoo and flying saucer research. The Prime Minister also said that Ortiz gave him a list specifying which nations Grenada could establish relations with. ("We are a soverign country and nobody has the right to tell us who our friends are.") The State Department flatly denies Bishop's charge...