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Economic Commentary
08.01.1992 |
EC 8/1/1992
The United States holds a $43 billion portfolio of foreign exchange reserves— mostly German marks and Japanese yen — to defend against unwanted depreciations of the dollar in the world’s currency markets.
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Economic Commentary
03.01.1992 |
EC 3/1/1992
The Great Lakes region was battered in the 1970s and early 1980s by a number of structural and cyclical adjustments. Heavy industry retrenched, manufacturing jobs were slashed by the thousands, and many factories were permanently closed.
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Economic Commentary
11.01.1991 |
EC 11/1/1991
A decade ago, some business analysts began to accuse U.S. managers of concentrating too much on current profits and too little on enhancing their firms’ long-run prospects.
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Economic Commentary
12.01.1990 |
EC 12/1/1990
Business analysts should be aware that the survey of capital spending plans published by the U.S. Department of Commerce has several limitations as a forecast of quarterly and annual fixed investment.
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Economic Commentary
11.01.1990 |
EC 11/1/1990
Soaring oil prices have caused speculation about the prospects for a national recession this winter.
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Economic Commentary
11.01.1989 |
EC 11/1/1989
The U.S. economy has been awash in foreign investment for nearly the entire decade of the 19805.
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Economic Commentary
10.01.1989 |
EC 10/1/1989
The financial news media frequently point to the movement of the Composite Index of Leading Indicators (ILl) as proof of impending growth or contraction in economic activity.
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Economic Commentary
10.15.1988 |
EC 10/15/1988
The inflation rate has risen, and there is good reason to believe that it is likely to rise even further.
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Economic Commentary
07.15.1988 |
EC 7/15/1988
The increasing purchase of U.S. assets by foreigners in recent years has been blamed on the currentaccount deficit, has been attributed to the Japanese, and has caused alarm about loss of U.S. economic independence.
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Economic Commentary
04.15.1988 |
EC 4/15/1988
Will this year’s improvement in U.S. foreign trade be double, triple, or even quadruple last year’s gain?
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Economic Commentary
10.15.1987 |
EC 10/15/1987
The foreign-exchange value of the dollar has been depreciating for more than two-and-a-half years.
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Economic Commentary
09.01.1987 |
EC 9/1/1987
Earlier this year, foreign central banks made very substantial purchases of U.S. securities.
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Economic Commentary
05.01.1987 |
EC 5/1/1987
In April 1987, the value of the U.S. dollar fell substantially, continuing a slide that began in February 1985 when the dollar peaked in relation to most currencies.
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Economic Commentary
02.15.1987 |
EC 2/15/1987
Agriculture has always been a showpiece of American technology, efficiency, and productivity growth.
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Economic Commentary
09.01.1986 |
EC 9/1/1986
A sharp drop in the value of the dollar since February 1985 has created hopes that there will be an increase in net exports that will fuel economic gains both in Ohio and the nation.
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Economic Commentary
12.15.1985 |
EC 12/15/1985
In September 1985, the Secretary of the Treasury joined his counterparts in the Group of Five (G-5) nations- France, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom-in announcing a joint effort to lower the exchange value of the dollar.
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Economic Commentary
08.01.1985 |
EC 8/1/1985
The crisis atmosphere that surrounded the international debt situation during the early part of the 1980s seems to have dissipated. The prospects of a major disruption in servicing international debt seem much smaller now than two or three years ago.
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Economic Commentary
06.18.1984 |
EC 6/18/1984
More and more, bankers and legislators are initiating state laws to lower legal barriers to interstate banking.
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Economic Commentary
03.12.1984 |
EC 3/12/1984
In today’s deregulated banking environment, more and more states are considering loosening their interstate banking restrictions. Ohio, Michigan, and Florida are three of about fifteen states currently considering interstate banking legislation.
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Economic Commentary
04.18.1983 |
EC 4/18/1983
Between October 1980 and November 1982, the U.S. dollar appreciated substantially in foreign-exchange markets.
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Economic Commentary
10.18.1982 |
EC 10/18/1982
The U.S. coal industry has taken on an increasingly important role in recent years as a source of energy.
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Economic Commentary
05.17.1982 |
EC 5/17/1982
The trigger price mechanism (TPM), implemented early in 1978, was devised to detect imports of steel at unfairly low prices and trigger the administrative relief provided by law.
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Economic Commentary
03.09.1981 |
EC 3/9/1981
Although the level of productivity is very high in the United States, productivity growth has slowed sharply in recent years.
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Economic Commentary
06.02.1980 |
EC 6/2/1980
The United States accomplished a massive $21·billion improvement in its non-oil trade balance in 1979. More rapid growth of foreign economies compared with the U.S. economy was a major cause of improvement in non-oil trade.
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Economic Commentary
01.28.1980 |
EC 1/28/1980
Gold prices have more than quadrupled since July 1978, in contrast to the substantial stability they have exhibited for over a century.