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This is a burdensome new "tax" that will worsen the already deepening recession by reducing the amount of cash Americans have for spending on all sorts of nonessentials, ranging from new cars and skiing holidays to Christmas presents and charitable contributions. A typical fuel bill for an oil-heated home, about $650 last year, is expected to climb to between $ 1,060 and $ 1,200 this year. In 1978 the average American worker had to labor for 19 hr. every month of the heating season to pay his fuel-oil bill; this winter he will have to work a walloping...
...over as Federal Reserve chairman, businessmen's basic cost of borrowing money has jumped from 11.75% to 13.5%, the highest in history. Most board members hold that the increases will soon stop but interest rates will remain steep over the next year. Some fear that the Fed may worsen the recession by inducing a classic credit crunch, in which little money is available for borrowing to finance new plants and create jobs...
...latest discount rate increase prompted a rare rebellion among its seven governors. Three of them opposed the move, saying it would seriously worsen the slowdown in the economy. There are signs that the recession will be deeper and longer than was predicted only three months ago. So some economists dispute Volcker's assertion that "what basically is good for the dollar is good for the economy at home." They are fearful that in his zeal to raise interest rates to buttress the buck abroad, he will worsen the Interest rates have been rising through the industrialized world since July...
...task for Britain, and for the delegates to the London conference, is to come up with an equally fair and manageable arrangement for Zimbabwe. It is also needed to insure that Zimbabwe will wind up with a government, not a battleground. A continuing war in Zimbabwe can only worsen turmoil in southern Africa, bring in the South Africans and the superpowers, and aggravate other festering sores in Namibia and elsewhere in Africa...
...while Israel's initial negotiating position has been extraordinarily restrictive, the Begin government has every incentive to yield just enough to keep Sadat happy, to worsen the split between Egypt and the other Arabs, and perhaps to attract Jordan and to divide the Palestinians in the occupied territories into rejectionists and gradualists. But such an agreement is not likely to be endorsed by the other Arabs, including Jordan, insofar as it will most probably leave East Jerusalem outside the scope of the autonomy scheme, leave the issue of Israeli settlements unresolved, and continue not to grant explicitly to the Palestinians...