FISCAL: Compensatory and Mr. Chase

Will a national debt of $300,000,000,000 bankrupt the U.S.? Where will the money to finance postwar full employment come from? How can jobs be found for 12,000,000 returning soldiers & sailors?

Last week, The Twentieth Century Fund published Stuart Chase's brightly written answers under the title Where's the Money Coming From? ($1). Once Author Chase was a tub thumper for a planned economy run from the top by a general staff of technicians, with U.S. industry—and consumers— regimented at the bottom (A New Deal, The Economy of Abundance). Now he raises his voice just as lustily for the widest possible...

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