Word: set
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Federal Reserve Board reported that February industrial production rose to 144, seasonally adjusted (1947-49 = 100). This is only three points under the record high set December...
...phrase now used in every economic argument is "administered prices." It crops up in union charges that business fails to cut prices in response to slackened demand, instead reduces volume and employment. It turns up in management charges that unions have set wages so high that wages, in effect, administer prices, keeping them high. Like an insistent musical theme, the phrase recurs in high-level talk that the Government may have to restore wage and price controls to keep down inflation. Where did the phrase originate? What does it mean...
...staff of the Department of Agriculture in Washington, Means published a study of price trends in the Depression to which he gave the title: "Industrial Prices and Their Relative Inflexibility." In it Means said that the classical Adam Smith laissez-faire free market, in which prices are set by a constant interplay of supply and demand, did not exist. In place of Smith's market-price theory, Means offered his administered-price theory. Said he: "An administered price is a price set by someone, usually a producer or a seller, and kept constant for a period of time...
FAIR-TRADE LAW for whole nation is being pushed again by Congress protectionists, who want to allow manufacturers to set minimum prices. But chances of congressional and presidential approval are slim...
...with the Young. Why the trading avalanche? The bull market has attracted many novice investors who aim for the moon but set a $10 limit on the trip. They shun stocks that sell for more, which means virtually all those on the New York Stock Exchange. They figure, often wrongly, that low-priced stocks are not only the cheapest but will rise the fastest. Thus, they shop around the American Exchange, home of many a budget-priced, volatile issue. (Almost all the exchange's most active stocks last week sold below $4.) Many of the stocks are low because...