Economic Report of the President Transmitted to the Congress

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969 - Electronic journals
Represents the annual report of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Appendix B contains historical tables (from 1959 or earlier) on aspects of income (national, personal, and corporate), production, prices, employment, investment, taxes and transfers, and money and finance.

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Page 25 - Congress hereby declares that it is the continuing policy and responsibility of the Federal Government to use all practicable means consistent with its needs and obligations and other essential considerations of national policy, with the assistance and cooperation of industry, agriculture, labor, and State and local governments, to coordinate and utilize all its plans, functions, and resources for the purpose of creating and maintaining, in a manner calculated to foster and promote free competitive...
Page 81 - The general guide for noninflationary wage behavior is that the rate of increase in wage rates (including fringe benefits) in each industry be equal to the trend rate of overall productivity increase.
Page 187 - President in the budget of the United States Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969. The bill would authorize appropriations to be made to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the sum of $4,370,400,000, as follows: (1) for "Research and development...
Page 113 - States to eliminate the paradox of poverty in the midst of plenty in this Nation by opening to everyone the opportunity for education and training, the opportunity to work, and the opportunity to live in decency and dignity.
Page 81 - ... price reduction if the industry's rate of productivity increase exceeds the overall rate — for this would mean declining unit labor costs; it calls for an appropriate increase in price if the opposite relationship prevails; and it calls for stable prices if the two rates of productivity increase...
Page 180 - Cabinet-level delegations which meet annually with similar delegations of the Canadian and Japanese Governments. The Council also was involved in activities of the UN Economic Commission for Europe. An important responsibility of the Council is to explain and clarify the Administration's economic policies, both within the Government and to the public at large. This is done through numerous speeches, articles, press briefings, statements, congressional testimony, its Annual Report, and by assisting...
Page 251 - Certificates of indebtedness and selected note and bond issues (fully taxable). 'Selected note and bond issues. Issues were partially tax exempt prior to 1941, and fully taxable thereafter. "First issued in 1941. Series includes bonds which are neither due nor callable before a given number of years as follows: April 1953 to date, 10 years; April 1952-March 1953, 12 years; October 1941 -March 1952, 15 years.
Page 149 - Commerce, and Labor; the Director of the Bureau of the Budget; and the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.
Page 262 - The data in these tables cover substantially all new issues of securities offered for cash sale in the United States in amounts over $100,000 and with terms to maturity of more than one year.
Page 165 - ... cities. Transportation. Such expanded investments in the improvement of the principal elements of the Nation's transportation system would serve the objectives of economic development, safety, and national defense. Science and space exploration. The allowances would permit the science and space agencies to fund some of the research opportunities not covered in the stringent budgets of recent years. Foreign economic aid. This additional amount would help to meet growth targets In Southeast Asia...

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