What will U.S. citizens buy in 1943?
With a dwindling supply of civilian goods and with some war workers already so well off they go A.W.O.L. in droves (see col. 2), nobody last week knew the real answer. But Wall Street brokers at least had a pet theorycitizens will buy common stocks. For this blithe prediction they had four hard & fast reasons: 1) there is no shortage of common stocks, 2) stocks are cheap, 3) stocks are a traditional inflation hedge, yield three or four times as much as good bonds to boot, 4) corporation taxes are likely to be boosted...
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