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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... volume of credit and in fact are responsible for holding down prices , in- cluding the prices of goods and services purchased by the Government , do not interfere with needed economic expansion , and do not unnecessarily in- crease the ...
... volume of credit and in fact are responsible for holding down prices , in- cluding the prices of goods and services purchased by the Government , do not interfere with needed economic expansion , and do not unnecessarily in- crease the ...
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... volume of employment - and farmers and labor are at least as directly concerned with these things as any other class in the community . It is generally , but not universally , agreed that Congress should have the last word in the ...
... volume of employment - and farmers and labor are at least as directly concerned with these things as any other class in the community . It is generally , but not universally , agreed that Congress should have the last word in the ...
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... volume . ( For further discussion , see the answer to Question 14. ) The Treasury also uses various techniques of debt management to assist in smoothing out disturbances in the money market which would otherwise occur around March 15 ...
... volume . ( For further discussion , see the answer to Question 14. ) The Treasury also uses various techniques of debt management to assist in smoothing out disturbances in the money market which would otherwise occur around March 15 ...
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... volume of insurance extended by the Federal Housing Admin- istration is the product both of congressional policy ( which prescribes certain conditions and limits the volume ) and of Executive policy ( which may speed up or retard ...
... volume of insurance extended by the Federal Housing Admin- istration is the product both of congressional policy ( which prescribes certain conditions and limits the volume ) and of Executive policy ( which may speed up or retard ...
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... volume of bank reserves in the country in that they can provide the commercial banking system a base for about a five- or six - fold expansion of bank credit if appropriate offsetting action is not taken by the Treasury and the Federal ...
... volume of bank reserves in the country in that they can provide the commercial banking system a base for about a five- or six - fold expansion of bank credit if appropriate offsetting action is not taken by the Treasury and the Federal ...
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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...