Word: borrowers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...immediate and unusually sharp 1% rise, from 11% to 12%, in the discount rate, which is the interest the Federal Reserve charges to commercial banks that borrow funds from it. Since Federal Reserve rules require banks to keep a certain amount of money in reserve for every dollar in loans to customers, banks that want to increase their lending sometimes turn to Federal Reserve discount funds to do so. Pushing up the cost of those funds discourages banks from borrowing and thereby helps hold down the expansion of credit...
...requirement that 8% of any dollars acquired by banks from foreign sources for relending to borrowers in the U.S. be set aside and not loaned to anyone. Known generally as Eurodollars, these expatriate greenbacks have accumulated as U.S. payments deficits, starting in the 1960s; lately they have been increasing dramatically as a result of the rising cost of imported oil. Today they form a $600 billion money mountain in Europe as well as in the Caribbean and other offshore tax havens, where they have escaped the control of the Federal Reserve. In the past, when the Fed tried to curb...
...reason why inflation shows no signs of abating. Ironically, even as then Fed Chairman and now Treasury Secretary G. William Miller was proclaiming a clampdown on monetary growth and pointing proudly to double-digit nationwide interest rates as evidence that the Fed was making it costly to borrow funds, the money supply itself was about to explode...
...money and credit would soon be rocketing all over again. That is precisely what happened. With people increasingly following an impulse to "buy now before the price goes up," spending began to roar anew in midsummer. Consumers once again crowded into supermarkets and stores while businesses began to borrow at a breakneck clip...
...financial blood bank for the company might be the $300 million strike fund built up by the United Auto Workers. After the contract settlement with General Motors two weeks ago, that fund will not be needed to pay picketing workers, and Chrysler may try to borrow from it This week Chrysler will open its own contract negotiations with the U.A.W., and ways in which the union might help the automaker will be discussed. U.A.W. President Douglas Fraser rules out using the $300 million kitty, but may accept partly deferred wage or benefit payments in return for a voice in management...