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Martin S. Fledsten '61, professor of Economics, is one of four conservative economists on a preliminary White House list of candidates to replace Murray Weidenbaum as President Reagan's chief economic advisor, according to a report in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal...
...Murray Weidenbaum, the chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, is more cautious. Last week he predicted a 6% inflation rate for the year as a whole. He added that the price news was "excellent" but warned that it was too early "to declare victory in this...
...some interest-rate relief by summer, but they also warn that the prospect of a 1983 federal budget deficit that could run as high as $180 billion may send the cost of money surging once again by the end of the year. In testimony before Congress last week, Murray Weidenbaum, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, urged the lawmakers to reach a compromise with the President that would cut the deficit. That, he said, plus the decline in inflation, would bring down the cost of borrowing...
...Reagan Administration has down-played the dark side of its defense buildup. In the economic report of the President, Murray Weidenbaum, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, in effect admitted the new dangers but argued that careful planning, tight management and accurate cost estimates could reduce their impact. Yet it is precisely those three qualities that have traditionally been most lacking in defense spending...
Already, the depression talk has become loud enough to force itself on the attention of the Reagan Administration, which has burst out in a chorus of denials. President Ronald Reagan last week told reporters flatly, "There is no danger of a depression." Murray Weidenbaum, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, said the economy already "may be hitting bottom." And William Niskanen, a member of the council, said: "I hear this sort of depression rhetoric every time there is a recession...