Economic Report of the President Transmitted to the CongressU.S. Government Printing Office, 1950 - United States Represents the annual report of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Appendix B contains historical tables (from 1959 or earlier) on aspects of income (national, personal, and corporate), production, prices, employment, investment, taxes and transfers, and money and finance. |
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1948-First quarter add to totals annual rate appendix table areas banks based on incomplete billion dollars Billions of dollars business investment capital cash payments cash receipts CHART construction consumer expenditures consumption continued Council of Economic countries debt December decline deficit Department of Commerce disposable income durable Economic Advisers employment Estimates based expansion exports Federal Reserve System fifth finance Fourth quarter funds Government gross national product growth improved incomplete data increase instalment credit International International Monetary Fund July labor force loans manufacturing ment national income necessarily add NOTE.-Detail Old-Age and Survivors outlays output percent period Personal consumption expenditures personal income personal saving plant and equipment Point Four Program policies programs purchases quarter of 1949 Quarterly average seasonally adjusted Second half Second quarter Source spending units sumer surplus taxes Third quarter tion transfer payments trend unem wage
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Page 150 - NOTE.— Detail will not necessarily add to totals because of rounding. Source: Department of Commerce estimates based on Securities and Exchange Commission and other financial data (except as noted).
Page 128 - President in the budget of the United States Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969. The bill would authorize appropriations to be made to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the sum of $4,370,400,000, as follows: (1) for "Research and development...
Page 157 - Data for 1940-49 exclude about 150,000 members of the armed forces who were outside the continental United States in 1940 and who were therefore not enumerated in the 1940 census.
Page 16 - ... to the continuance of high business investment at the present time. Besides, using the checklist on page 16 of the Economic Report, a number of policy recommendations are made to strengthen business investment immediately and thereby directly contribute to business expansion : 1. Make some revision in the tax structure to reduce present inequities, stimulate business activity, and yield a moderate amount of net additional revenue.
Page 1 - Report of 1950 keynoted disinflationary price adjustments in recent months, and, with premature complacency, suggested that this created "the relative stability on which firm business and consumer plans can be based." * * * The relatively safe passage from inflation to greater stability was no accident.
Page 174 - State and local governments. 4 1ncludes demand deposits, other than interbank and US Government, less cash items in process of collection.
Page 144 - Survey of Consumer Finances, conducted by the Federal Reserve System in co-operation with the Survey Research Center of the University of Michigan. °A spending unit is defined as all persons living in the same dwelling, and belonging to the same family, who pool their income to meet their major expenses.
Page iii - Respectfully, Chairman. The Honorable The President of the Senate The Honorable The Speaker of the House of Representatives \ LETTER OF SUBMISSION WASHINGTON, DC, March 28, 1955.
Page 191 - General imports represent merchandise entered immediately upon arrival into merchandising or consumption channels plus commodities entered into bonded customs warehouses for storage. Imports for consumption include merchandise entered immediately upon arrival into merchandising or consumption channels plus withdrawals from bonded customs warehouses for consumption.
Page 2 - ... result. This is the meaning of stability and growth, and there is no sizable evidence that a reduction of employment in itself promotes better balance within the economy or in itself creates a surer foundation for either stability or growth. Question 3 The President states in the Economic Report (p. 2) : Additional steps should now be taken to complete the process of recovery. We must not again make the mistake of failing to adopt affirmative policies necessary for continued economic stability...