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...that a default could abort the recovery. Robert Nathan, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, says that if New York goes under, the shock waves in money markets will drive up borrowing costs for many states and municipalities, forcing them to cut services and spending and hike taxes, and drastically harm the economy. A New York bankruptcy would also wipe out much of the value of $2 billion worth of city securities held by banks round the country. Though the Federal Reserve has pledged to lend the banks enough money to keep them from closing, they might...
...case of salami tactics," claims the 71-year-old professor emeritus of Romance Languages: you take a little here, a little there, and soon, though nobody's noticed, you've got the sausage. Meaning, in this case, a hefty rent hike...
...Massachusetts Public Utilities Commission announced Monday that it will allow $93.6 million of a proposed $200 million telephone rate hike to become effective within two weeks...
Trudeau's sudden turnaround is a clear admission that the milder medicine he championed during the 1974 election campaign has failed. Although the government has urged business and labor to hold down price and wage hikes voluntarily, inflation in 1975 has run at a discouraging compound annual rate of 12.7%, and government economists have predicted that it could reach 16% by year's end. Wage increases have averaged almost 19% yearly-twice the U.S. rate-even though more than 7% of the work force is unemployed. Moreover, Canada has been plagued by more work stoppages than any major...
...Countries to be a quiet affair. But few foresaw what by week's end had become a dramatic and bitter tug of war between the cartel's two major producing nations, Saudi Arabia and Iran. After four days of fierce wrangling, the members compromised Saturday on a hike in world oil prices of only 10%, or about $1.05 per bbl., well below the 35% or so that had been bruited about a few months ago. The new price will be frozen for nine months...