How to Keep It from Galloping
THERE are some who say that we cannot enjoy the blessings of progress without incurring in some degree the ravages of inflation. I don't believe it. I refuse to adopt the defeatist position that inflation is the alternative to unemployment."
Thus, William McChesney Martin Jr., chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, last week angrily waded into a raging economic argument. The subject: creeping inflation. That inflation is creeping nobody can deny. The August cost-of-living index figures show the twelfth consecutive monthly rise (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The argument is...
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