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...more fall than rise, the index dips proportionately below 50. In June the index turned sharply downward, fell well below 50. The bureau's experts are still not saying "recession"-not until all the leading indicators are going down and the index hits zero (see chart...
...Bear Mountain. This Statement is not a finished declaration or blueprint, but a step toward further analysis and research, specific proposals, and political action to come. We ask others to help us to enlarge our understanding, to bring us new tools of thought and action, to imagine and then chart a future. We hope to contribute ideas and moral and organizational support for a debate across the country. Small as is the chance for a rebirth, great as looms the spector of destruction, we want your help in seizing the chance...
...sextants of economists are the business indicators, statistical pointers that help to chart the course of the U.S. economy. They range from measures as complex as interest rates and demand-deposit turnovers to such personally felt statistics as the amount of personal income. When the U.S. economy surges forward or turns sharply back, the indicators usually agree -and so do the economists. Now. with the economy resting on the highest plateau in history, business experts are nervously indicator hopping in search of some clue to its next shift. To some, it is headed for another recession or is already...
...recent years, increased productivity has been accompanied by regular wage hikes (see chart). Such unions as Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers and James B. Carey's International Union of Electrical Workers now argue that earnings should rise at the same rate as productivity. But productivity jumps, insists management, not only reflect increased output per worker but increased capital investment and automation. Productivity also has an effect on prices and inflation. An increase in output per man-hour not only makes more goods available; it makes possible either lower prices or higher profits-or some of both...
...crept up 1.6% in the past year, while the gross national product has shot up much more. In the second quarter of 1960, according to new figures last week, the U.S. economy produced goods and services at an annual rate of $505 billion, well above a year ago (see chart...