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- Page 5: CONTENTSPageECONOMIC REPORT OF THE
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- Page 11 and 12: manent tax rate reductions. My prop
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- Page 21: THE PRESIDENT:LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL
- Page 24 and 25: CHAPTER 2. ECONOMIC REVIEW OF 1976
- Page 26 and 27: List of Tables and Charts—Continu
- Page 29 and 30: CHAPTER 1Economic Policy and Outloo
- Page 31 and 32: GENERAL POLICY PRINCIPLESTo assure
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- Page 35 and 36: TABLE 1.—The market value and the
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- Page 39 and 40: MONETARY POLICYThe Federal Reserve
- Page 41: like the latter part of 1976. The 4
- Page 45 and 46: NET EXPORTSIn real terms net export
- Page 47 and 48: LABOR FORGE AND UNEMPLOYMENTIt is e
- Page 49 and 50: led to large first-year catchup inc
- Page 51 and 52: Consumer prices of fuels during 197
- Page 53 and 54: other workers. Productivity is meas
- Page 55 and 56: Since the mid-1950s a dramatic chan
- Page 57 and 58: women's labor force participation;
- Page 59 and 60: The full-employment benchmark has b
- Page 61 and 62: Chart 4Gross National Product, Actu
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- Page 65 and 66: TABLE 7.—Changes in gross nationa
- Page 67 and 68: Relative price movements were appar
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- Page 79 and 80: In the unified budget the total sho
- Page 81 and 82: The permanent changes in the Tax Re
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- Page 85 and 86: For this reason, although the rate
- Page 87 and 88: quarter a year later. The actual gr
- Page 89 and 90: Partly as a result of the desire of
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of longer-term trends. Over the pas
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ment and earnings show little cycli
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production or real GNP, and this al
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percent from 1973. The cost of petr
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COMMODITY MARKETS AND FOOD PRICESWo
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TABLE 25.—Real income per farm an
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While circumstances have enabled a
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The policy actions taken in 1975 an
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TABLE 27.—Changes in industrial p
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States some underspending by public
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continued strong domestically gener
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GENERAL DEMAND TRENDSEconomic devel
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PUBLIC SECTOR DEFICITSThe economic
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insurance funds. The requirement th
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TABLE 29.—Export shares in trade
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Chart 7—ContinuedINDEX, 1973=100
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widened and the possibility of borr
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Chart 8—ContinuedInterest Rates i
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Where stabilization policies are pe
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Germany grew more in line with outp
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TABLE 32.—Estimated disposition o
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ates, and tax changes that facilita
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facility is designed to help countr
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is necessary that the strongest eco
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A freezing of relative prices, eith
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implicit and explicit subsidies bui
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qualitative conclusions. For exampl
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For some youths unemployment is inv
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may be as low as 10 percent. Thus t
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large subsidies through the tax cre
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in the transportation and public ut
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trust exemption permits motor carri
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purchase less expensive air travel.
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produced with higher-cost energy so
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of establishing efficient methods o
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in the future. Consequently current
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demand and supply at support prices
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with stringent controls on peanut a
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aspects of the tax system which imp
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TABLE 35—Change in aUer-tax inter
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and raise the return to capital inc
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come, social security encourages pe
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LETTER OF TRANSMITTALCOUNCIL OF ECO
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RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE COUNCILThe
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the Administration's economic polic
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member of the senior staff, and Rob
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CONTENTSNATIONAL INCOME OR EXPENDIT
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PageB-76. Estimated ownership of pu
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TABLE B-2.—Gross national product
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TABLE B-3.—Implicit price deflato
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TABLE B-4.—Implicit price deflato
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TABLE B~6.—Gross national product
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TABLE B-8.—Gross national product
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TABLE B-9.—Gross national product
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TABLE B-ll.—Gross domestic produc
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TABLE B-13.—Personal consumption
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TABLE B-15.—Inventories and final
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TABLE B-17.—Relation of gross nat
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TABLE B-19.—National income by ty
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TABLE B-20.—Sources of personal i
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TABLE B-21.—Disposition of person
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19291933Year orquarter1939...194019
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TABLE B~25.- -Number and money inco
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TABLE B-27.—Noninstitutional popu
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TABLE B-28.—Civilian employment a
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TABLE B-30.— Unemployment by dura
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TABLE B-32.—Wage and salary worke
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TABLE B-33.—Average weekly hours
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TABLE B-35.—Productivity and rela
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PRODUCTION AND BUSINESS ACTIVITYTAB
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TABLE B-39.—Industrial production
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TABLE B-41.—New construction acti
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TABLE B-42.—New housing units sta
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TABLE B-44.—Sales and inventories
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TABLE B-46.'—Manufacturers 1 new
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TABLE B-48.—Consumer price indexe
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TABLE B—50.—Consumer price inde
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TABLE B-52.—Percent changes in co
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19291933193919401941194219431944194
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TABLE B-54.—Wholesale price index
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TABLE B-56.—Percent changes in wh
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TABLE B-58.—Commercial bank loans
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TABLE B-60.—Total funds raised in
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TABLE B-61.—Federal Reserve Bank
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TABLE B-63.—Bond yields and inter
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TABLE B-64,—Instalment credit ext
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TABLE B-66.— Mortgage debt outsta
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GOVERNMENT FINANCETABLE B-68.—Fed
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TABLE B-69.—Federal budget receip
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TABLE B-71.—Receipts and expendit
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TABLE B-73.—Receipts and expendit
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TABLE B-75.—Interest-bearing publ
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TABLE B-77.—Average length and ma
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TABLE B-79.—Corporate profits by
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TABLE B—80.—-Corporate profits
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TABLE B1-81.—Sales, profits, and
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TABLE B-83.—Relation of profits a
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TABLE B-85.—Current assets and li
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TABLE B-87.—Common stock prices a
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192919331939Year orquarter19401941
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TABLE B-91.—Farm population, empl
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TABLI. B-93.—Selected measures of
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INTERNATIONAL STATISTICSTABLE B-95.
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TABLE B-96.—U.S. merchandise expo
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TABLE B-98.—U.S. overseas loans a
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TABLE B-100.—U.S. reserve assets,
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TABLE B-102.—Price changes in int