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ECONOMICTRANSMITTEDTO THE CONGRESSF
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CONTENTSPageECONOMIC REPORT OF THE
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ECONOMIC REPORT OF THE PRESIDENTTo
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of the inflation rate of 1973, and
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or permit incentives—including hi
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people of an easy time. Like our pa
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THE PRESIDENT:LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL
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CHAPTER 3. INFLATION CONTROL UNDER
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Page7. Unemployment Rates by Sex an
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Page53. Maximum Percent Change in E
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We have specific problems, too, asi
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This curtailment of supply does, of
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consumption we would not have chose
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outside the food and fuel sectors a
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about $14 billion from deficit to s
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8 percent, at annual rates. Continu
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A third method, which seems to have
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DEVELOPMENT OF LOW-COST ENERGY FOR
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would otherwise have been invested
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TRANSPORTATION REFORMLast year the
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constraints. Restrictions on entry
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In early 1974 the Commerce Departme
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Consumer SpendingConsumer expenditu
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Chart 1Changes in GNP, Real GNP, GN
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During the fourth quarter the downt
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A number of points may be noted abo
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income do not appear to have played
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Chart 2Changes in Real GNPPERCENTUN
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of essentially declining participat
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The unemployment rate for adult mal
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from job losers, the remainder of t
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to maintain a somewhat larger work
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Chart 3Changes in Selected Price Me
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TABLE 12.—Changes in selected pri
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production workers, and it is sensi
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the profits that companies report a
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Two measures of changes in income t
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About $8 billion of the growth in e
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effect of covered wage and employme
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Since these apparent stabilization
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MONETARY POLICY AND FINANCIAL MARKE
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lation requiring ceilings on all CD
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TABLE 19.—Offerings of new securi
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CHAPTER 3Inflation Control Under th
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(A more detailed presentation of th
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ate of advance in grocery store foo
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to the economy but also in the sens
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were imposed, limiting prices to th
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spurring of domestic inflation by e
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was more than twice as high in 1973
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wage increases in many cases, const
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TABLE 26.—Behavior of items in co
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Chart 6Changes in RelatedWholesale
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and natural gas. A complex set of f
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CHAPTER 4Energy and AgricultureFOR
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al gas have contributed to the low
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TABLE 30*—Wholesale prices, all i
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tion sector, which in 1972 accounte
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United States on oil imports, OPEC
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of old oil and prices of imported a
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LONG-TERM PROSPECTSThe price of imp
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important that the higher costs be
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improving the environment. The fund
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pollutants into the atmosphere will
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of research and rapid mechanization
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lion in fiscal 1972. Actually the a
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a minimum income. Unless prices fal
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The Administration supports the exa
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and estimates of some of these effe
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Since families typically pool their
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ability were not perfectly correlat
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Farm wages and farm income received
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TABLE 37.—Average usual weekly ea
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Chart 9Real Incomes for Men in Diff
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ecause they have acquired more expe
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whose owners or white workers have
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Several factors can be mentioned to
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y social pressures, however, which
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TABLE 42.—Relation of wage and sa
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ferences in their mix of occupation
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for public housing may be valued by
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8 to 20 percent for black females.
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sufficiently high to cover the addi
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TABLE 45.—Federal Government tran
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given to the problems of poverty du
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TABLE 47.—Trends in the employmen
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enefit increases greater than the i
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(Table 45). Medicare is chiefly des
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Public assistance is specifically d
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Then, subtracting equation (4) from
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policies, and the tensions among co
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In the fourth quarter the dollar ro
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which include trade, grants and oth
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tarily by foreign central banks, ev
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ply of oil, and by domestic price c
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in the United States. In view of th
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TABLE 52.—U.S. balances on intern
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esult from changes in market value
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TABLE O42.—Manufacturers' shipmen
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PRICESTABLE C-44.—Consumer price
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TABLE C—46.—Consumer price inde
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TABLE C—48.—Percent changes in
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TABLE O49.—Wholesale price indexe
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TABLE C~50.—Wholesale price index
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Year andmonthMONEY STOCK, CREDIT, A
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TABLE C-54.—Total funds raised in
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TABLE C—55.—Private liquid asse
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TABLE C-57.—Aggregate reserves an
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TABLE G-58.—Bond yields and inter
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TABLE C-60.—Instalment credit ext
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TABLE C-62.—Mortgage debt outstan
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GOVERNMENT FINANCETABLE C-64.—Fed
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TABLE C-65.—Federal budget receip
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TABLE C-67.—Receipts and expendit
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TABLE C-69.—Receipts and expendit
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TABLE C-71.—Public debt securitie
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TABLE C-73.—Average length and ma
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TABLE C-75.—Sales, profits, and s
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TABLE C-76.—Relation of profits a
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TABLE C-78.— Current assets and l
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TABLE C-80.—Common stock prices\
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AGRICULTURETABLE C-82.—Income of
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TABLEC-84.—Farm population, emplo
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TABLE C-86.—Selected measures of
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INTERNATIONAL STATISTICSTABLE C-88.
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TABLE C-89.— U.S. merchandise exp
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TABLE C-91.—U.S. overseas loans a
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End of year ormonth1946 ..194719481
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TABLE C-95.—Price changes in inte