Monetary Policy and the Management of the Public Debt: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on General Credit Control and Debt Management ... 82-2, ... March 10 ... 31, 19521952 - 993 pages |
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... interest rate ? Secretary SNYDER . Well , that matter is always discussed very care- fully , sir . Senator DOUGLAS . Who is to make the final decision on it ? Secretary SNYDER . There is only one place that it can finally be made by law ...
... interest rate ? Secretary SNYDER . Well , that matter is always discussed very care- fully , sir . Senator DOUGLAS . Who is to make the final decision on it ? Secretary SNYDER . There is only one place that it can finally be made by law ...
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... interest rate ? When these two principles come in conflict , which is to have precedence ? Secretary SNYDER . Well , the question , of course , then comes into sharp focus as to whether interest rates are going to hold back the seeking ...
... interest rate ? When these two principles come in conflict , which is to have precedence ? Secretary SNYDER . Well , the question , of course , then comes into sharp focus as to whether interest rates are going to hold back the seeking ...
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... interest rates down , but you also want to prevent inflation . Which is better , a stable inter- est rate but expanding bank loans and rising prices or a stable price level even though it may mean a rising interest rate ? Secretary ...
... interest rates down , but you also want to prevent inflation . Which is better , a stable inter- est rate but expanding bank loans and rising prices or a stable price level even though it may mean a rising interest rate ? Secretary ...
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... prices at the interest rates charged ? Secretary SNYDER . I stand on the statement in 17 that we were assured of cooperation . Senator DOUGLAS . Well , " cooperation " is a very vague word . That is one of the troubles here . You use ...
... prices at the interest rates charged ? Secretary SNYDER . I stand on the statement in 17 that we were assured of cooperation . Senator DOUGLAS . Well , " cooperation " is a very vague word . That is one of the troubles here . You use ...
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... prices at the interest rates which you decided upon . That is the issue . If there was such a pledge , and if it was not later honored , then the Chairman may have been acting in bad faith , but there was not such accord , then I don't ...
... prices at the interest rates which you decided upon . That is the issue . If there was such a pledge , and if it was not later honored , then the Chairman may have been acting in bad faith , but there was not such accord , then I don't ...
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Page 794 - 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, in a manner calculated to foster and promote free competitive enterprise and the general welfare, conditions under which there will be afforded useful...
Page 441 - 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, in a manner calculated to foster and promote free competitive...
Page 153 - I am inviting a group of our leading bankers to meet with me, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board in the near future.
Page 76 - The doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted by the Convention of 1787, not to promote efficiency but to preclude the exercise of arbitrary power. The purpose was, not to avoid friction, but, by means of the inevitable friction incident to the distribution of the governmental powers among three departments, to save the people from autocracy.
Page 474 - Section of the Division of Research and Statistics of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Page 537 - One aspect of this movement was a growing dissatisfaction with the empty formalism of much educational content in the latter part of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century; with stultifying drill and catechism-like methods of teaching; with the curriculum's lack of relatedness to the everyday experience of the child, his physical world, and social environment; and with pupils' rote verbalization and memorization of ideas for which they had no adequate referents in experience.
Page 123 - 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 744 - President. But it would be an alarming doctrine that Congress cannot impose upon any executive officer any duty they may think proper, which is not repugnant to any rights secured and protected by the constitution; and in such cases, the duty and responsibility grow out of and are subject to the control of the law, and not to the direction of the President.
Page 86 - Act of 1946; and (2) it is the will of Congress that the primary power and responsibility for regulating the supply, availability and cost of credit in general shall be vested in the duly constituted authorities of the Federal Reserve...
Page 3 - Monetary Policy and the Management of the Public Debt, Report of the Subcommittee on General Credit Control and Debt Management of the Joint Committee on the Economic Report, Congress of the United States, Senate Document No. 163, 82d Cong., 2d Sess. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1952. Monetary Policy and the Management of the Public Debt...