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...double reserve requirements which would nearly wipe out the current reserve surplus of $2,800,000,000 -base for ten times that amount of credit. Present excess reserves could also be sterilized if the Federal Reserve banks sold all their Government bonds. And the Federal Reserve may boost stockmarket margin requirements to 100%-cash trading...
...Presidential tip is as good for a rousing market rally today as it was in 1928 when Calvin Coolidge undertook to boost securities. Now, as then, stockmarketeers made the most of it. And they were greatly aided by an accompanying hail of other good news, including a pickup in steel buying, active retail trade, a big bulge in carloadings (see p. 56), re-entry of the House of Morgan into the securities business (see below) and pegging of Canadian wheat at 87½¢ per bu. General Motors reported a striking sales gain in August over July. General Electric boosted...
...ordered written. Next the stiff excess profits tax proposed by the House was pared down. Personal income tax exemptions were cut from $2,500 to $2,000 for married people, from $1,000 to $800 for single persons. Surtaxes were increased from the bottom up. These new rates would boost the taxes of every married income taxpayer at least $20 a year, would make everyone with an income over $5,000 a year pay a surtax, would add $60 a year to the tax of a man earning $6,000, $160 a year to the tax of a man earning...
...Committee became alarmed at reports that their bill was generally considered a dismal disappointment as a revenue-raiser. To stop this criticism they announced they would raise surtaxes not from the $150,000 but from the $50,000 level thereby pinch 7,000 instead of 1,000 taxpayers, thereby boost Federal revenue by an extra...
...Police Training School went back home they would be so firmly stamped with the U. S. seal of approval that local bosses would think twice before detouring these men for mere political reasons, and that the national weapon for fighting crime would thereby receive a healthy boost...