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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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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 54.—Major changes in capita
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attempt was made to agree on a code
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The official price of gold was rais
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system, these demand changes were a
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What Pressures Should Be Exerted on
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The composition of reserves among d
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prices of approximately the same or
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tained, they would probably be felt
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Reducing Nontariff BarriersIn order
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Structural problems. Agreements on
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arrangements which are designed to
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capital and the means of putting th
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Canada and four smaller countries u
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currencies have appreciated relativ
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Effective Changes in Other Currenci
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Activities of the Advisory Committe
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Appendix BREPORT TO THE PRESIDENT O
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Report to the President on the Acti
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govern the exploitation of the reso
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Manpower and Social Affairs Committ
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Junior Staff EconomistsJames S. Fac
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Appendix CSTATISTICAL TABLES RELATI
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PRODUCTION AND BUSINESS ACTIVITY:Pa
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NATIONAL INCOME OR EXPENDITURETABLE
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TABLE C-2.—Gross national product
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TABLE C-3.—Implicit price deflato
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TABLE C-5.—Gross national product
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TABLE C-7.—Gross national product
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TABLE C—8.—Gross national produ
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TABLE C-10.—Gross national produc
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TABLE C-12.—Personal consumption
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TABLE C-14.—Relation of gross nat
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TABLE C—16.—Relation of nationa
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TABLE C-18.— Total and per capita
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TABLE C-19.—Sources of personal i
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TABLE C-21.—Saving by individuals
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POPULATION, EMPLOYMENT, WAGES, ANDP
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TABLE C-24.—Noninstitutional popu
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TABLE C-26.— Selected unemploymen
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TABLE C—28.—Unemployment insura
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TABLE C-29.—Wage and salary worke
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TABLE C-31.—.•Average weekly ea
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TABLE C-33.—Changes in output per
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TABLE C—35.—Industrial producti
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TABLE C-37.—Capacity utilization
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TABLE C—38.—New construction ac
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TABLE C-39.—New housing starts an
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TABLE C-41.—Sales and inventories
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TABLE C-43.—Manvjacturers* new an
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TABLE O45.—Consumer price indexes
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TABLE C—47.—Consumer price inde
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TABLE C~49.—Wholesale price index
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TABLE C-50.—Wholesale price index
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TABLE C-53.—Commercial bank loans
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TABLE G-54.—Total funds raised in
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TABLE C-56.—Federal Reserve Bank
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TABLE C-58.—Bond yields and inter
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TABLE C-59.—Short- and intermedia
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TABLE C-61.—Mortgage debt outstan
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TABLE C-63.—Net public and privat
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TABLE C-65.—Federal budget receip
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TABLE C-66.—Relation of the Feder
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TABLE C-68.—Receipts and expendit
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TABLE C-10.—State and local gover
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TABLE C-72.—Estimated ownership o
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CORPORATE PROFITS AND FINANCETABLE
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TABLE C-76.—Relation of profits a
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TABLE C-77.—Sources and uses of f
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TABLE C-79.—State and municipal a
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TABLE C-81.—Business formation an
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Year1929...1933...1939...1940...194
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TABLE C-85.—Indexes of prices rec
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TABLE G-87.—Comparative balance s
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TABLE G-88.— U.S. balance of paym
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TABLE C-90.— U.S. merchandise exp
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TABLE C-92.—International reserve
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TABLE G-94.—International investm
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TABLE C-96.—Consumer price indexe