Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, Greenspan, 61, will need to be one. The summer's respite can last only so long before the Fed nominee will have to deal with a flare-up among the many long-term economic woes the U.S. faces. America's giant twin deficits, in trade and the federal budget, are improving slowly but remain daunting. Their persistence could help send the dollar plunging again and pressure the Fed to bolster the currency with higher interest rates. Inflation has returned as a potential threat, while the Third World debt dilemma refuses to go away. America's aging economic expansion...
...counteract this perception, most of the Democratic candidates are investing heavily in what can be called the "muscle factor." Like novice sportswriters, they festoon their rhetoric with images denoting oomph. They strain to adopt positions that appear to be gutsy. Richard Gephardt promotes his restrictive trade policy with the argument that a "made-in-the-U.S.A." approach will "score knockout victories again." Free traders, he says, "lack backbone." Joseph Biden uses the America's Cup races as a metaphor for the nation's standing, then declares, "To say we want to compete means we are already losing. I want...
...Iowa, for instance, doves, populists, union leaders and feminists weigh heavily in the caucus process. When Gephardt flexes his muscles for trade and farm legislation, he wins points in the small Iowa caucus arena but risks coming across to a national audience as a Mondale-style panderer to special interests. "If Gephardt really wanted to look gutsy," says one party critic, "he'd tell the unions where to go." Biden has tried to look tough by taking command of the battle against Supreme Court Nominee Robert Bork. But he ends up seeming to cater to liberal groups and surrendering...
Even a mild slowdown in Europe's growth rate would be bad news for the U.S. economy. Washington has been counting on increased exports to Europe to help curb America's huge trade deficit, which hit a record $169 billion in 1986. But there is no assurance that Western Europe can keep up its present consumption of American imports ($59 billion last year), much less develop a greater appetite...
Many Congressmen believe that support for financial aid and other higher education programs is essential for building a trained work force capable of handling high technology. Such ability is critical for improving America's faltering position in international trade...