Monetary Policy and the Management of the Public Debt: Their Role in Achieving Price Stability and High-level Employment, Part 1 |
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... periods . This offers a counter - inflationary drag and helps to keep the debt down . Both President Truman and I have ... period . Both within the Department and in association with other bureaus and agencies of the Government ...
... periods . This offers a counter - inflationary drag and helps to keep the debt down . Both President Truman and I have ... period . Both within the Department and in association with other bureaus and agencies of the Government ...
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... period . In the absence of the Treasury's aggressive program for reducing bank - held debt , inflationary pres- sures might have been more serious . Another way in which the Treasury has acted to counter infla- tionary pressures during ...
... period . In the absence of the Treasury's aggressive program for reducing bank - held debt , inflationary pres- sures might have been more serious . Another way in which the Treasury has acted to counter infla- tionary pressures during ...
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... period since 1946 for the purpose of in- fluencing public opinion on controversial matters in connection with ... period for the preparation of motion pictures , illustrated brochures , or any other special material in these fields ...
... period since 1946 for the purpose of in- fluencing public opinion on controversial matters in connection with ... period for the preparation of motion pictures , illustrated brochures , or any other special material in these fields ...
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... period . The Treasury still has authority to hold gold inactive in the Gen- eral Fund . In fact , approximately $ 1 ... periods of inflationary pressure and easing them when the situation is reversed . Treasury awareness of the ...
... period . The Treasury still has authority to hold gold inactive in the Gen- eral Fund . In fact , approximately $ 1 ... periods of inflationary pressure and easing them when the situation is reversed . Treasury awareness of the ...
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... period . Moreover , the record should be considered in the light of the large degree of agreement which has always existed between the Treasury and the Federal Reserve . Particularly , during the postwar period , the two agencies were ...
... period . Moreover , the record should be considered in the light of the large degree of agreement which has always existed between the Treasury and the Federal Reserve . Particularly , during the postwar period , the two agencies were ...
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Page 8 - ... other essential considerations of national policy, with the assistance and cooperation of industry, agriculture, labor, and State and local governments, to coordinate and utilize all its plans, functions, and resources for the purpose of creating and maintaining, in a manner calculated to foster and promote free competitive enterprise and the general welfare, conditions under which there will be afforded useful employment opportunities, including self-employment, for those able, willing, and...
Page 16 - Employment Act of 1946". DECLARATION OF POLICY SEC. 2. The Congress hereby declares that it is the continuing policy and responsibility of the Federal Government to use all practicable means consistent with its needs and obligations and other essential considerations of national policy, with the assistance and cooperation of industry, agriculture, labor, and State and local governments, to coordinate and utilize all its plans, functions, and resources for the purpose of creating and maintaining,...
Page 246 - The time, character, and volume of all purchases and sales of paper described in section 14 of this Act as eligible for open-market operations shall be governed with a view to accommodating commerce and business and with regard to their bearing upon the general credit situation of the country.
Page 246 - The Federal Trade Commission is an administrative body created by Congress to carry into effect legislative policies embodied in the statute in accordance with the legislative standard therein prescribed, and to perform other specified duties as a legislative or as a judicial aid. Such a body cannot in any proper sense be characterized as an arm or an eye of the executive. Its duties are performed without executive leave and, in the contemplation of the statute, must be free from executive control....
Page 308 - The board of directors of the Corporation shall determine and prescribe the manner in which its obligations shall be incurred and its expenses allowed and paid.
Page 17 - Government to the extent that they make or participate in the making of foreign loans or engage in foreign financial, exchange or monetary transactions.
Page 40 - States, to receive any tax imposed under the internal revenue laws, in such manner, at such times, and under such conditions as he may prescribe; and he shall prescribe the manner, times, and conditions under which the receipt of such tax by such banks and trust companies is to be treated as payment of such...
Page xi - DIDC consists of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Chairman of the Board of...
Page 211 - System, extend to each member bank such discounts, advancements, and accommodations as may be safely and reasonably made with due regard for the claims and demands of other member banks, the maintenance of sound credit conditions, and the accommodation of commerce, industry, and agriculture.
Page 28 - ... heretofore vested by law in the Secretary of the Treasury which relate to the supervision, management, and control of the Treasury Department and bureaus under such department, and wherever any power vested by this Act in the...