Word: trend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What amazed investigators-and might well appall Wall Street-was that Goldsmith's comic-strip forecasts had been right as often as many solemn market guides that rely on the "science" of charts, trend lines, explosion points, recoils, double tops and double bottoms. Nevertheless, the Attorney General last week got an injunction stopping Goldsmith's forecasts-not because they came from comic strips but because he had not said...
Sunk in Bath Salts. The biggest part of the debt ($32 billion) is in home mortgages. The rest has been run up by U.S. citizens in acquiring the goods and services which they consider essential to their health and happiness-automobiles, clothes, refrigerators, washing machines, television sets. The trend which the FRB Bulletin noted most anxiously was the increase in installment buying, which is up some $2.3 billion over last year, to a total...
...bloom off the boom? The Department of Commerce last week saw some signs of it. In the first six months of 1948, said the Department's monthly Survey of Current Business, "the rate of advance was probably the slowest for any six-months period since the postwar up trend began, with fewer industries reporting gains in output and more reporting downward adjustments...
...installment buying, authorized by the special session of Congress. Requirements thereafter: a one-third down payment on new or used automobiles and 20% on most household goods, payment of the balance in 15 months (if less than $1,000) or 18 months (if above $1,000). Meanwhile the trend toward higher interest rates, which the Treasury and FRB had started by upping their short-term and rediscount rates, continued; the Chase National Bank raised its rates on call money (brokers' loans) from...
Localized Zigzags. Li, Ho or Fu (or any other successor to Chiang) would have great difficulty uniting the Kuomintang behind him. The mere mention of their names brought closer the prospect of regionalism. A trend toward decentralization has already set in, partly because the Gimo has had to rely on trusted local commanders in remote areas to equip and organize their own commands. In North China, local authorities have been buying arms for militia forces independent of the Central government, and the use of silver dollars (banned by the Central government in 1935) has spread. In Manchuria, General...