January 4, 1960

Reluctant as this column is to engage in prophecy, it is not taking much risk in predicting that when a settlement of the steel strike does come, it will be inflationary.

January 2, 1961

As the gold-and-dollar problem increases, and no one in authority wants to take the agonizing corrective steps, everyone tries hopefully to find some painless and easy way out. This accounts for the sudden popularity of two proposals. One is to abandon even the legal 25 percent gold reserve requirement in our Federal Reserve System. The other is the proposal of Robert Triffin of Yale to set up a world super-bank.

January 1, 1962

Last week I discussed seven basic issues and principles involved in foreign-trade policy, but never got to the complicated problem of the European Common Market and what our relations with it ought to be.

January 7, 1963

It is easy to point to those who do not gain by a strike. Let us look at the present newspaper strike in New York City.

January 6, 1964

The shocking assassination of President Kennedy was followed by hours of panic on the markets of the world. The reminder once again that sudden death—whether through violence, accident, or natural causes—can come to a President in office, and the recognition that our statutory provisions for succession when there is no Vice President are unsatisfactory to many, and that the provisions for the event of “disability” are vague and inadequate, led to considerable discussion of possible remedies.