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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said citizens should form the American Energy Corporation to break up the oil companies' monopoly. "Congress is the best thing money can buy," he said. "The oil companies can blackmail the people in power, so we have to establish the consumers' sovereignty...

Author: By David R. Merner, | Title: Nader Advocates Energy Commission To Fight Oil Cartel | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...worried investors around the country hurried to unload their falling stocks, a record 81.6 million shares were sold off on the Big Board in such a headlong rush that the ticker tape reporting transactions and prices fell as much as 63 minutes behind the pace of trading. "This thing is feeding on itself," fretted William LeFevre, vice president at one Wall Street brokerage house. "Each decline triggers another batch of people who have to sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Squeeze of '79 | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

Many a day has passed when The Who were the only thing between me and depression. They are a spiritual as well as a musical force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 22, 1979 | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Squeeze of '79 | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

Shucking academe for the real thing, Volcker signed on as an economist with the New York branch of the Federal Reserve. After five years, Volcker jumped into private enterprise at the Chase Manhattan Bank. Five more years and he became chief financial analyst at the U.S. Treasury in Washington, D.C., a remarkable achievement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Defender of The Dollar | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

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