Business: Top of the Decade: Business

> The longest U.S. economic expansion begins—an eight-year advance, 1961.

> The great electrical price-fixing conspiracy brings jail sentences for seven executives, 1961.

> Congress enacts President Kennedy's $11.5 billion tax cut, a victory for Keynesian economic policy, 1964.

> President Johnson's decision to avoid raising taxes launches the current inflation, 1966.

> The Kennedy Round of tariff cuts stimulates huge growth in world trade, 1967.

> National Alliance of Businessmen is created to find 500,000 jobs for the hardcore unemployed,...

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