Word: triffin
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Empty Rhetoric. While all these were the right sounds to make, Robert Triffin, a board member who was a chief architect of the West's postwar monetary system, said that after reading the final communique, "in the whole list I don't see a single concrete agreement." His point: the seven summiteers had expressed good intentions rather than committing themselves to specific policies. Almost to a man, Triffin and his board colleagues were concerned about a rising global trend toward protectionism, which could inhibit the needed expansion of world trade, and a failure to check inflation, which...
Yale Professor Robert Triffin believes that some joint effort at stimulus, led by the U.S., is mandatory. Triffin thinks that Carter, after taking office, should move quickly toward publicly "endorsing" stimulus by Germany and Japan and work with those countries toward a plan for reinvigorating their economies, improving trade and boosting growth. Less developed countries would also benefit: markets for their commodities would be strengthened...
...Otto Eckstein, a liberal member of TIME'S Board of Economists: "I've got to teach freshman economics on Monday and I'd be hard put to find something useful in the debate to teach them. The candidates just completely missed a grand educational opportunity." Yale's Robert Triffin, another member of TIME'S Board, found the debate "desperately dull and desperately uninfor-mative." A top industrial economist was even harsher: "Neither of them would have passed Economics." Perhaps because they were intent on winning political points, both men seemed shallower on the economic issues than they have in past...
...current chairman, Alan Greenspan, is on leave from TIME's Board. Murray Weidenbaum, who replaced Greenspan on our panel, was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Nixon Administration. Robert Nathan heads a private consulting firm in Washington; David Grove is chief economist at IBM; Robert Triffin, an expert in international monetary policy, is a Yale economics professor; and Beryl Sprinkel serves as top economist at Chicago's Harris Trust and Savings Bank...
...Board of Economists as they gathered to trace the likely course of the economy for the year ahead. Tax Expert Joseph Pechman described the situation as "desperate," and Arthur Okun, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, worried that the economy "is in a tailspin." Liberals Robert Triffin and Robert Nathan showed their concern by wearing BATH (for "Back Again to Hoover") buttons...