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CONTENTSPageECONOMIC REPORT OF THE
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ECONOMIC REPORT OF THE PRESIDENTTo
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Monetary policy will play a critica
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Interest Rates and the U.S. Trade D
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THE ANNUAL REPORTOF THECOUNCIL OF E
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CONTENTSPageCHAPTER 1. FROM RECESSI
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PageConclusions 122CHAPTER 6. REVIE
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CHAPTER 1From Recession to Recovery
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slowed somewhat in the 1970s regard
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nal GNP growth is reflected in a sl
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inflation. More specifically, the A
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inflation rate, or with a 12 percen
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1988, an increase of about one-four
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CHAPTER 2The Dual Problems of Struc
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frequently associated with poor hea
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Chart 2-2Distribution of Unemployme
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Chart 2-4Distribution of Unemployme
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These findings suggest several conc
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Wage RigidityA number of studies sh
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that these measures may have caused
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Most young people find jobs or leav
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to employers who hire youths. Tax c
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defined broadly to include individu
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ship between incomplete experience
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CHAPTER 3The United States in the W
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with 2.6 percent in the other Organ
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TABLE 3-1 .—Structure ofthe U.S.
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TABLE 3-2.—Trade balances by comm
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concentrate on doing what it does r
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the United States will depress pric
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Chart 3-3Real Exchange Rates Of Maj
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AN UNDERVALUED YEN?The explanations
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arily reduced the international com
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nancial markets. These transactions
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TABLE 3-6.—Economic performance b
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were undoubtedly a highly favorable
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of lenders that some debtors will n
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CHAPTER 4Increasing Capital Formati
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ate of net investment was required,
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able share in Japan and 56 percent
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During the 1970s, productivity grow
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MEASURING NATIONAL SAVINGDomestic s
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TAX RULES AND PERSONAL SAVINGMany e
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on consumption taxation might also
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Nevertheless, a number of economic
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tion permitted businesses to deprec
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A final problem under current tax l
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fleeted efforts to deal with proble
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egulation was probably not applicab
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Aeronautics Board, for example, the
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system resulted. Price controls, wh
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NGPA, both controlled and decontrol
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TABLE B-40.—Productivity and rela
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PRODUCTION AND BUSINESS ACTIVITYTAB
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TABLE B-44.—Industrial production
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TABLE B-46.—Neiv construction act
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TABLE B-47.—New bousing units sta
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TABLE B-49.—Sales and inventories
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TABLE B-51.—Manufacturers' new an
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TABLE B-53.—Consumer price indexe
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TABLE B-54.—Consumer price indexe
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TABLE B-57.—Producer price indexe
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TABLE B-59.—Producer price indexe
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TABLE B-62,—Components of money s
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TABLE B-64,—Total funds raised in
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TABLE B-65.—Federal Reserve Bank
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TABLE B-67.—Bond yields and inter
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TABLE B-68.—Consumer credit outst
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TABLE B-70.—Mortgage debt outstan
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GOVERNMENT FINANCETABLE B-72.—Fed
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TABLE B-73.—Federal budget receip
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TABLE B-75.—Government receipts a
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TABLE B-77.—State and local gover
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TABLE B-79.—Interest-bearing publ
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TABLE B-81.—Maturity distribution
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TABLE B-83.—Corporate profits by
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TABLE B-85.—Sates, profits, and s
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TABLE B-87.—Relation of profits a
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TABLE B-89.—Sources and uses of f
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TABLE B-91.—State and municipal a
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TABLE B-93.—Business formation an
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TABLE B-95.—Farm output and produ
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TABLE B-99.—Balance sheet of the
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TABLE B-101.—£7.5. international
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TABLE B-102,—U.S. merchandise exp
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TABLE B-104.—U.S. merchandise exp
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TABLE B-106.— World trade: Export
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TABLE B-108.—International reserv
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TABLE B-110.—Industrial productio