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...argues that its new system will enable it to keep a day-to-day eye on what really matters?the money supply???and to feed just enough new cash and credit into the economy to prevent a crunch. Yet something very much like a credit crunch may be the only thing that can break the nation's addiction to easy money. The inflation psychology of spending to beat price rises is becoming a part of the national psyche...
...work well in controlling that endemic modern problem, stagflation. A stiff dose of Government spending, prescribed by Britain's late Dr. John Maynard Keynes to cure depression, often leads to an inflation high. The monetarist medicine formulated by Dr. Milton Friedman ?take a slow, steady increase of money supply???often produces the economic blahs. The radical surgery of wage-price controls is widely recognized as a palliative at best or, at worst, counterproductive quackery...
...built up?and cashed in?tremendous stocks of dollars, Fort Knox's bullion hoard, which backs the value of the dollar, has plunged in the past seven years from $21 billion to $13.9 billion. Foreigners now hold $27.7 billion in dollars?almost twice the value of the U.S. gold supply???and they can demand gold for them at any time. Though it is highly unlikely that they would ever cash in enough to break Fort Knox or force the U.S. to devalue the dollar, the mere fact that they have the power to do so is a bludgeon...
...highly important Army figure who heads the General Staff's Operations Division, charged with developing new ideas and improving old ones for the combat armies. Although the chief duty of the reorganized General Staff is to evolve plans to be executed by the Army's functional branches?Air, Ground, Supply???Tom Handy actually directs much of the Army's operations...
...scarcely conceivable that the Federal Reserve would use all the gold, thus freed from currency collateral, as coverage for more money. Always kept in mind is the possibility of foreign demands on the U. S. gold supply???"raids on the dollar." The Glass-Steagall bill intentionally or otherwise will materially strengthen the Federal Reserve's position to withstand gold exports without violent shocks and strains to the U. S. money market...
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