Anti-inflation Program as Recommended in the President's Message of November 17, 1947. Hearings Before the Joint Committee on the Economic Report, Congress of the United States, Eightieth Congress, First Session, Pursuant to Sec. 5 (A) of Public Law 304, 79th Congress...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1948 - 643 páginas Considers proposals to tighten Federal control of consumer credit, increase Federal regulation of futures trading of commodity exchanges, and extend Federal authority to control the allocation, inventory, and transport of scarce commodities. |
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... excess trading in cotton did about a year ago . I am frank to confess to you that there is no way by which I can measure the effects of com- modity market speculation , but I do depend upon the people who have made a study of it in the ...
... excess trading in cotton did about a year ago . I am frank to confess to you that there is no way by which I can measure the effects of com- modity market speculation , but I do depend upon the people who have made a study of it in the ...
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... excess of the wheat goals announced October 2 , 1947. Reports received from the field indicate , however , that it now will be possible for seedings in Nebraska , Oklahoma , and Colorado to be between 90 and 100 percent of the original ...
... excess of the wheat goals announced October 2 , 1947. Reports received from the field indicate , however , that it now will be possible for seedings in Nebraska , Oklahoma , and Colorado to be between 90 and 100 percent of the original ...
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... excess of short hedgings . This excess is carried by speculators who are long as a group . You asked what the purpose of it is . I do not think that there is any question but what the ability to use the futures market to hedge enables ...
... excess of short hedgings . This excess is carried by speculators who are long as a group . You asked what the purpose of it is . I do not think that there is any question but what the ability to use the futures market to hedge enables ...
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... excess of 50 percent might not be necessary ? Mr. MEHL . No , I am not convinced of that . But I would be surprised if more than 50 percent were ever necessary . Senator MYERS . Well , do you think it would be wise for the Congress if ...
... excess of 50 percent might not be necessary ? Mr. MEHL . No , I am not convinced of that . But I would be surprised if more than 50 percent were ever necessary . Senator MYERS . Well , do you think it would be wise for the Congress if ...
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... excess of 50 percent ? Mr. MEHL . Yes , sir . The CHAIRMAN . Mr. Horan ? Representative HORAN . Mr. Mehl , in testimony before our western subcommittee in Portland , Mr. Barbery , the head of the Portland Grain Exchange , made quite a ...
... excess of 50 percent ? Mr. MEHL . Yes , sir . The CHAIRMAN . Mr. Horan ? Representative HORAN . Mr. Mehl , in testimony before our western subcommittee in Portland , Mr. Barbery , the head of the Portland Grain Exchange , made quite a ...
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Agriculture allocation amount areas authority bank credit bank reserves bankers believe Board bonds BROWN bushels cars cash CATE cents CHAIRMAN CHAPMAN coal cocoa committee Commodity Credit Corporation Commodity Exchange Commodity Exchange Act Congress consumer cotton crop debt demand deposits Department ECCLES economy effect excess expansion export controls farmers FARRINGTON Federal Reserve Board Federal Reserve System feed futures contracts futures market going Government securities grain exchanges hedging important increase industry inflation inflationary limited loans margin requirements MCCLINTOCK MEHL ment million operations percent present President production proposed purchase question reduce Representative HORAN result Secretary ANDERSON Secretary HARRIMAN sell Senator FLANDERS Senator KEM Senator MYERS Senator O'MAHONEY Senator SPARKMAN Senator WATKINS shortage situation SKYBERG special reserve requirement speculation statement steel STURTEVANT sugar supply thing tion tons trade Treasury UHLMANN United wheat
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Página 90 - The CHAIRMAN. Are there any other questions? If not, we thank you very much, Mr.
Página 68 - ... consisting of the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Attorney General...
Página 639 - For the reasons hereinafter enumerated, transactions in securities as commonly conducted upon securities exchanges and over-the-counter markets are affected with a national public interest which makes it necessary to provide for regulation and control of such transactions and of practices and matters related thereto...
Página 18 - Such record shall be required to be kept for a period of three years from the date thereof, or for a longer period if the Secretary of Agriculture shall so direct, and shall at all times be open to the inspection of any representative of the United States Department of Agriculture or United States Department of Justice.
Página 247 - The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board...
Página 599 - OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM, THE PRESIDENTS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANKS, AND THE FEDERAL ADVISORY COUNCIL •{Reprinted from Federal Reserve Bulletin for January 1941.
Página 165 - I thank you, gentlemen. Senator SMITH. Mr. Thomas, there are two or three questions I would like to ask you. You believe strongly, I take it, in public education or schools supported by taxation ? Mr. THOMAS. Believe in it? Why, Senator, it is the salvation of the country. Senator SMITH. What do you think would be the proportion of the children who would not be educated at all if our public-school system...
Página 98 - We have two important witnesses. (Thereupon at 12:30 pm a recess was taken until 3 pm of the same day.) AFTERNOON SESSION The committee reconvened at 3 pm upon the expiration of the recess. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order.
Página 601 - Such acquisitions should be insulated from the credit systems, and, once insulated, it 'would be advisable if they were not restored to the credit system except after consultation with the Federal Open Market Committee. 4. The financing of both the ordinary requirements of Government and the extraordinary needs of the defense program should be accomplished by drawing upon the existing large volume of deposits rather than by creating additional deposits through bank purchases of Government securities....
Página 18 - ... orders for the purchase or sale of any commodity for future delivery on or subject to the rules of any board of trade...