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Polemicists and commentators of the right obviously think their ideas are sounder or more steadfast than Reagan's, but it was he who carried 44 states...
...main problem was that skittish investors were selling their francs for sounder currencies, like the German mark. In a single week, the Bank of France spent $1.5 billion buying up francs to preserve their value. To help ease the strain, eight European countries agreed to a complex realignment of their currencies that had the net effect of devaluing the franc 8.5% against the mark...
...Neither right nor left has met the problem square on; it will take, he says, a realist unswayed by the dogma of free enterprise or the hypnosis of absolutist environmentalism. And perhaps, in this case, he is right; at any rate, he is credible, and his pronuclear argument is sounder than most...
Nonetheless, professional stock analysts say that the young businesses that are coming to the market today tend to be much sounder investments than the new issues of the '60s. Says Frank Bryant of Los Angeles' Bateman Eichler, Hill Richards: "The companies going public now are more mature. They generally have at least five years of earnings, and the price-earnings ratios aren't in the in finite numbers of the '60s." More stock underwriting is also now being done by old-line, well-capitalized investment banking firms. This psychological imprimatur tends to make the stocks seem...
...They have had their chance to manipulate the economy using indirect tactics based on complex theories. The time has come for direct action. A wage-price freeze will cut short the inflationary spiral--but it will only work as a breathing space in which to restructure the economy on sounder foundations...