Economic Report of the President: Hearings Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1971 |
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... forecasts that economists outside the Government have commonly made for 1971 , which have tended to be in the range from ... forecast that the GNP in 1971 will be less than $ 1,065 billion . An average of such forecasts would be about ...
... forecasts that economists outside the Government have commonly made for 1971 , which have tended to be in the range from ... forecast that the GNP in 1971 will be less than $ 1,065 billion . An average of such forecasts would be about ...
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... forecasts to underestimate when the economy is rising most strongly . In our opinion , a consensus forecast of $ 1,050 billion by no means rules out the possibility of an outcome of $ 1,065 billion . But we are saying something more ...
... forecasts to underestimate when the economy is rising most strongly . In our opinion , a consensus forecast of $ 1,050 billion by no means rules out the possibility of an outcome of $ 1,065 billion . But we are saying something more ...
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... forecast . The proposed Budget will support the desired orderly expansion of the economy . It is not a Budget which takes upon itself the entire burden of pumping the economy up to its desired rate . Neither is it by any standard a big ...
... forecast . The proposed Budget will support the desired orderly expansion of the economy . It is not a Budget which takes upon itself the entire burden of pumping the economy up to its desired rate . Neither is it by any standard a big ...
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... forecasts that have been put forward by the Council of Economic Advisers . But if one examines that record , the juxtaposition of the forecasts of private forecasters together with this $ 1,065 billion does not in any sense demonstrate ...
... forecasts that have been put forward by the Council of Economic Advisers . But if one examines that record , the juxtaposition of the forecasts of private forecasters together with this $ 1,065 billion does not in any sense demonstrate ...
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... forecast the full employment revenues , we probably can do that somewhat better than we can project actual revenues , at least there are pretty persuasive reasons for expecting that . On the general point of not imputing excessive ...
... forecast the full employment revenues , we probably can do that somewhat better than we can project actual revenues , at least there are pretty persuasive reasons for expecting that . On the general point of not imputing excessive ...
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Page 545 - But apart from this contemporary mood, the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.
Page 667 - States welcomes the opportunity to comment on the Economic Report of the President and the Annual Report of the Council of Economic Advisers.
Page 813 - Loans of all operating banks, the production credit associations, and the Farmers Home Administration, and discounts of the Federal intermediate credit bank for...
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Page 173 - Budget, the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and the Director of the Office of Science and Technology may each designate a member of his staff to attend meetings of the Committee as an observer.
Page 635 - Free prices and wages are the heart of our economic system; we should not stop them from working even to cure an inflationary fever. I do not intend to impose wage and price controls which would substitute new, growing and more vexatious problems for the problems of inflation.
Page 26 - Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.
Page 635 - I do not intend to impose wage and price controls which would substitute new, growing, and more vexatious problems for the problems of inflation. Neither do I intend to reply upon an elaborate facade that seems to be wage and price control but is not.
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Page 846 - If it is agreed that economic output is a good thing it follows by definition that there is not enough of it.