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-	Welcome once again, as MIT professor Paul Samuelson	0:02
	discusses the current economic scene.	0:05
	This series is produced by	0:08
	Instructional Dynamics Incorporated.	0:09
	This program was recorded September 10th.	0:11
-	The news has been coming thick and fast.	0:16
	Today, I'd like to report on the first summit meeting,	0:19
	the first preparatory meeting for the summit	0:24
	called by President Ford for the major, grand, glorious,	0:28
	1,500-person summit which will meet	0:36
	at some Washington hotel at the end of this month.	0:41
	On Thursday, September 5th, 28 outside economists	0:45
	were invited to meet in the east room of the White House	0:51
	with President Ford, with his economic advisors,	0:54
	Chairman Alan Greenspan newly appointed	1:00
	to the Council of Economic Advisors,	1:03
	being in the chair for most of the day	1:05
	when the president wasn't there.	1:07
	But included at the table were	1:09
	Roy Ash, the director of the Office of Budget Management,	1:12
	William Simon, Secretary of Treasury,	1:19
	all the other economists, Dr. Fellner of the CEA,	1:23
	Dr. Seevers, and so forth.	1:28
	But also, and this was therefore	1:30
	to be not just an executive branch meeting,	1:33
	but a combined operation, a honeymoon coupling	1:36
	between Congress and executive,	1:41
	also present at the table were senators and congressmen.	1:43
	Senator Proxmire was there, Congressman Patman was there,	1:48
	John Rhodes, Dominick, so you see we had people	1:54
	from Congress both from the liberal	2:01
	and the more conservative persuasions there.	2:05
	Who were the economists invited?	2:09
	Well, I think they were a fairly predictable list of names	2:11
	once it was decided that it was	2:15
	to be a broad spectrum meeting.	2:17
	For example, John Kenneth Galbraith was included,	2:21
	and I take that to be a signal	2:25
	that people off the mainstream	2:28
	of conventional economics were to be represented there.	2:32
	In addition, there was a professor	2:39
	who was about to go to the Hoover library	2:43
	who would be, I suppose, presumed	2:45
	to represent a more conservative viewpoint.	2:47
	Now, of course you can't have everybody.	2:51
	Lacking, notably lacking, from the standpoint	2:54
	of an inside professional was that there was no invitation	2:57
	to Gardner Ackley, a former chairman	3:01
	of the Council of Economic Advisors.	3:03
	But perhaps it was felt that Otto Eckstein,	3:05
	Arthur Okun and Walter Heller were enough	3:08
	of a representation of his view.	3:12
	Also not present was professor James Tobin of Yale,	3:15
	who represents a view discernibly different	3:21
	from that, let's say, of Walter Heller,	3:27
	and perhaps of somebody like myself.	3:30
	But again, it may have been felt	3:32
	that you can't have everybody represented.	3:34
	And Richard Cooper of Yale, formerly provost,	3:35
	now returning to be a professor	3:40
	of international economics at Yale was there,	3:41
	and he did, as it happens, in giving his view,	3:44
	also give some of the views of Professor Tobin.	3:49
	Well, Professor Milton Friedman was there,	3:54
	Professor Beryl Sprinkel, the monetarist, was there.	3:56
	We did not have Alan Meltzer and Karl Brunner,	4:02
	other monetarists, represented there.	4:07
	But, by and large, there was a pretty good representation.	4:09
	I should say that Herbert Stein now a professor	4:12
	at the University of Virginia was, of course,	4:15
	invited there, and Paul McCracken,	4:18
	formerly a chairman who also seems	4:19
	to have some personal relationship	4:21
	with the new president was there.	4:23
	There were some people from, I guess	4:27
	you would have to say industry and labor,	4:29
	for example there was a representative there	4:32
	from the CIO AFL, AFL-CIO, and there was	4:36
	a representative from the Chamber of Commerce.	4:43
	It was very pleasing to see that	4:46
	there were a couple of women there.	4:48
	There was, and by the way, in my judgment,	4:51
	they performed among the outstanding performers there.	4:55
	Marina Whitman, formerly with the Nixon council	5:01
	and an expert in her own right	5:06
	in international economics, was there.	5:08
	Norma Pace, from the Paper Institute was there.	5:10
	There was an economist from IBM,	5:15
	there was an economist from Armstrong Corp,	5:17
	there was an economist from the Bank of America,	5:19
	so I suppose you could say there were some people	5:23
	who had met a payroll there and who were practical.	5:25
	I must not omit to mention that George Schultz,	5:29
	formerly secretary of treasury,	5:34
	but now at the Bechtel Corporation on the west coast	5:36
	and in a part-time relationship	5:40
	to Stanford Business School was there.	5:42
	The face lacking, missing, was Pierre Rinfret.	5:47
	It had been announced that he had been	5:53
	personally invited by the president.	5:54
	I suppose this must have been announced	5:56
	by Dr. Rinfret himself, but that the staff	5:58
	had vetoed the president's invitation.	6:03
	Well, you can't have everything.	6:10
	Now, what could have been expected before the meeting,	6:12
	and what happened at the meeting?	6:17
	Before the meeting, I don't think you could expect too much	6:21
	of any importance and after the meeting,	6:24
	I think that history will record	6:27
	that that expectation was correct,	6:30
	because after all, the views of all the people	6:33
	at that table have been made available	6:37
	to the public and made available	6:40
	to the government, long since.	6:42
	My own fear was that the only purpose	6:46
	of the summit, once the president had committed himself	6:50
	to it, was going to be an anticlimactic purpose	6:54
	but that the usefulness of such a summit meeting,	6:59
	preliminary summit meeting but I go	7:05
	for all the meetings and the final, big summit meeting	7:07
	is not to discover new truths.	7:11
	You can't expect new anti-Keynesian theorems	7:13
	or pro-Keynesian theorems or quite	7:18
	in different ballparks from Keynes theorems	7:22
	to emerge from a brainstorming session	7:25
	in public by a group of experts like that.	7:29
	The truth is found in the solitary study,	7:33
	in the seminar room, even in bathtubs,	7:37
	not in public committee meetings like that.	7:42
	So I said to myself, what purpose could this serve?	7:46
	And I concluded that such a conference	7:50
	can sometimes be successful when you have a position	7:54
	to sell, a position that most men of goodwill agree with	7:59
	and what you need is a blue-ribbon certification	8:03
	of that, a public relations kickoff,	8:06
	and this was, to me, a very foreboding	8:09
	and pessimistic conclusion, because I asked myself,	8:16
	what is it that anyone could imagine,	8:19
	anyone in Washington, that is,	8:23
	that would constitute such a program?	8:25
	And the only program that I thought of	8:28
	that people could agree on and which would need selling	8:29
	would be a program of blood, sweat, and tears.	8:33
	What you have to do is to tough out this period	8:36
	of stagnation, it hurts you, but it's really good	8:43
	for you and what we need to have is the American people	8:48
	back up the view expressed by so many economists	8:53
	of the previous administration that,	8:55
	to put it bluntly, what the country cannot avoid,	9:00
	what the country actually needs,	9:04
	what the country will be better off for	9:05
	is 6+% unemployment for a long, long time.	9:08
	Indeed, the daydreams of a Washington	9:13
	administration economist, if I use my ESP,	9:19
	I think it's not very hard to paint	9:23
	what is in those daydreams, it's the following,	9:28
	that we should not have the economy so acutely down	9:33
	as to constitute what the National Bureau	9:38
	of Economic Research calls a recession.	9:40
	But, just on the edge of that particular dividing line,	9:44
	we should keep the economy pretty much flat,	9:49
	definitely growing below the par needed	9:53
	to keep the labor force occupied.	9:58
	So we should hope to have the unemployment rate increase,	10:01
	towards 6%, do something cosmetic	10:06
	and substantive about relieving some	10:09
	of the human suffering, the worst human suffering	10:12
	connected with that, but not all of the human suffering,	10:14
	or else the medicine won't provide its therapy	10:18
	and hold on for about a couple of years,	10:22
	in which case, inflationary expectations	10:27
	will be squeezed out of the system	10:30
	and then, again, I want you to know	10:33
	that I'm quoting the view of one group	10:37
	of economists, perhaps the minority	10:44
	of all economic experts somehow defined,	10:46
	then there would be no reason why	10:51
	we couldn't go forward for the rest of the decade	10:53
	with steady prosperity and reasonable price stability.	10:56
	I'm not sure what numbers would correspond	11:05
	to all that, but I think I'm not caricaturing the position	11:08
	if I say that the price level,	11:14
	as measured by the Consumer's Price Index	11:20
	and the GNP deflater, presumably needn't grow	11:22
	by more than an average of two or 3%,	11:26
	the last part of the decade, after the middle	11:29
	of the decade, and that the real growth	11:32
	for the economy could be pretty steady,	11:35
	averaging about 4% after the shakeout period.	11:41
	Well, to get there from here,	11:50
	what's needed, according to this view,	11:54
	is a austere budget, most of the economists	11:57
	who have this view think that an austere budget	12:01
	is the only good budget anyway,	12:03
	that there's an awful lot of waste	12:05
	in the federal budget and it is always	12:06
	in season to cut down on it.	12:10
	So what one should have would I presume be a $5 billion cut,	12:13
	at least, from the next fiscal policy budget,	12:23
	hold it down to below $300 billion, as Dr. Greenspan said,	12:27
	I'm sorry, Mr. Greenspan, it's not so important	12:31
	that X billion dollars be cut,	12:36
	as that we show a definite new pattern,	12:41
	a definite repentance for the loose budgetary policies	12:45
	of the past, that we'd be on our way towards progress.	12:52
	Of course, what should also take place,	12:56
	according to these economists, is a strengthening	13:01
	of the political hand of the Federal Reserve	13:05
	to keep the rate of growth of the money supply down,	13:08
	to keep it down to a reasonable long-run number,	13:12
	like 4% or 5%, in that particular ballpark,	13:19
	and it would be nice to get 20 out of 28 experts	13:28
	to sign their John Hancocks to such a program.	13:34
	This would put pressure on Congress,	13:43
	in fact, some of the economists	13:45
	of this persuasion think the people are ahead	13:47
	of Congress in this respect	13:50
	and this particular prescription,	13:53
	which doesn't, perhaps, to everybody's ears sound great,	13:58
	is said by these economists to be the best	14:02
	that is really feasible, it just is not possible	14:04
	to avoid having unemployment rise.	14:08
	It is just not possible to have unemployment not rise	14:10
	without bringing us right back to a new twist	14:17
	of the inflationary spiral.	14:23
	And the low two-digits price inflation could begin	14:25
	to turn into something worse, moreover,	14:30
	according to these economists again,	14:33
	the change from low, two-digit inflation	14:35
	which is improving to two-digit inflation	14:40
	which is not improving is going, inevitably,	14:44
	under the American political system	14:47
	to bring in controls	14:49
	and infringements on personal and private liberties	14:52
	so that, although there's a cost involved	14:58
	in this program, anyone who is rational	15:01
	and who values freedom and who carefully puts	15:05
	into the balance scales, on the one side,	15:09
	the cost in terms of some extra unemployment	15:14
	and some sacrificed real growth in the short run,	15:17
	which isn't even a cost in the long run,	15:20
	according to this view, just a trade-off through time.	15:21
	On the other side, if you don't do it,	15:26
	and that's the alternative which we're urged, always,	15:30
	to look at, you will have lost your freedoms	15:32
	and no sacrifice, for a person who really values freedom,	15:35
	is too great to preserve one's freedoms.	15:38
	And it would help some if 20 out	15:44
	of 28 economists were to support that viewpoint.	15:47
	I emphasize 20 out of 28 because unanimity	15:51
	among the broad spectrum group of economists	15:55
	is certainly not to be expected by any reasonable man.	15:58
	Usually about 20 in the crowd go one way,	16:04
	the consensus way, and then you always have another eight,	16:08
	another 1/3 who are distributed	16:14
	on both sides of that consensus,	16:17
	those who think that a more rightward,	16:19
	a more conservative, in the case	16:24
	of fighting inflation, a more contractionary set	16:28
	of policies is indicated and then, of course,	16:32
	always a group on the other side,	16:34
	presumably the AFL-CIO.	16:37
	One would have ordinarily, in most years,	16:39
	thought John Kenneth Galbraith, etc.,	16:43
	would be on the other side.	16:45
	Well, that isn't at all what happened.	16:47
	First, it was decided that this should be on television.	16:50
	Of course, this means this is on educational television,	16:56
	it doesn't mean high Nielsen ratings	16:59
	but it does mean any person out in the community	17:01
	who is near an urban area and who wants	17:05
	to follow the proceedings is able to do so.	17:08
	And so you have the spectacle of economists	17:11
	on the air, all day long, if they scratched an ear	17:14
	and were within camera view, then	17:19
	that was transmitted all across our great country.	17:24
	My forebodings were not realized	17:31
	and actually, at the end of the day,	17:37
	when I thought back on my return to Cambridge,	17:39
	on what had happened, I decided	17:44
	that it had been about as good a day	17:46
	as one might have hoped for because what is it	17:48
	that the economists there agreed upon?	17:53
	Well, they didn't agree on anything,	17:57
	if 28 out of 28 is your test, but using my rough rule	17:59
	of, where 2/3 to 3/4 stood,	18:05
	then there was a surprising measure of agreement.	18:09
	For example, at least that number,	18:15
	in fact, probably all but three or four in the room	18:19
	said that it was clear that the Federal Reserve	18:24
	had been too tight.	18:27
	I said that if 23 out of 28 economists say	18:29
	the Federal Reserve has been too tight,	18:35
	it means that they really have overstayed their gambit.	18:38
	Unfortunately Dr. Arthur Burns, chairman	18:48
	of the Federal Reserve was not in the room all day	18:51
	and when this particular type	18:54
	of analysis reached its crescendo, I noted	18:57
	that he was not in the room but I was assured	19:00
	that a little bird would tell him what went on	19:02
	in the room and when the president returned,	19:05
	Arthur Burns also returned.	19:08
	The president got the message	19:11
	and the Federal Reserve got the message.	19:12
	In fact, just yesterday, the Federal Reserve,	19:14
	through an official spokesman, unnamed,	19:20
	said that it already had turned.	19:25
	It didn't need the advice of those experts,	19:28
	it had its own advice and the change	19:31
	in its reserve requirements on large CDs	19:35
	that are over four months duration,	19:39
	that was a signal of the turn.	19:44
	Moreover, the federal funds rate,	19:46
	which had been above 12% and which is watched	19:47
	as a bellwether, had moved down even earlier	19:50
	to 11 and a half percent.	19:53
	All this news was so joyous and good	19:55
	that the stock market was up for a couple of days	19:57
	in a row, however, lest you think the joy was overdone,	20:01
	the stock market managed to take a very sharp fall,	20:07
	just yesterday, as I'm speaking,	20:13
	but it had another event, for those who want	20:16
	to explain the stock market,	20:21
	to give them a possible explanation.	20:23
	Namely, just three days after this era	20:25
	of good feeling in which jokes	20:31
	about the little brown jug that passes	20:34
	between the University of Michigan	20:37
	and the University of Minnesota were being bandied about	20:39
	at the president's table and the president	20:42
	was being congratulated on no longer having an enemy list	20:46
	and having just a list of friends	20:49
	and a listing of everybody and when I spoke	20:51
	of the need for middle-of-the-road policies	20:55
	and emphasized my strong Midwestern credentials,	21:00
	the president jumped to grab the middle-of-the-road,	21:06
	said he was a middle-of-the-road person	21:11
	and of course, we have no reason to doubt	21:15
	that he's a Midwestern person and all was good feeling	21:17
	but of course, just two days ago,	21:22
	the president, after taking guidance	21:25
	from non-earthly sources decided	21:30
	that he would give an absolute	21:35
	and unconditional pardon to the recent president	21:37
	and this, in the view of short term observers,	21:43
	seems to suggest that the honeymoon's over,	21:47
	so that the middle-of-the-road policy	21:50
	advocated last Thursday by the group	21:56
	of experts will not have a chief executive	21:59
	who has quite as much clout to put it through.	22:02
	But let me stick to economics.	22:05
	On the budget, it was pointed out	22:07
	by very many of the experts there,	22:11
	that the government expenditure,	22:13
	in real terms, in goods and services,	22:17
	or in money terms, has been going down,	22:20
	relative to the GNP in this recent inflation period.	22:25
	After all, there's been a substantial cut	22:29
	in defense expenditures.	22:32
	We've been able to give less support	22:34
	to agriculture, etc., etc.	22:36
	This is particularly true at the federal level.	22:39
	The state and local expenditures have not	22:42
	gone down in the way that the federal have,	22:47
	but that's understandable because of revenue sharing	22:50
	and also because of the needs for schools	22:53
	and roads and other things at the local level.	22:55
	If you add in the expansion of transfers,	22:59
	because we are in a welfare state,	23:02
	the increase of Social Security expenditures	23:04
	and other transfer expenditures of the federal government,	23:06
	then what you find is that the share	23:10
	of GNP, it's really not an appropriate comparison,	23:14
	but let's make it because it's always made,	23:19
	of total government spending at all levels has been flat,	23:21
	it has not been going up in this particular period.	23:27
	I won't go through the numbers with you	23:29
	on this occasion, but if you will look at the unified budget	23:31
	and the budget on national income account	23:35
	and the full employment budget, etc., etc.,	23:38
	you will not find that the simple-minded thesis	23:41
	that deficits out of control have caused	23:45
	this last inflation can be substantiated.	23:48
	Quite the contrary.	23:52
	Where you will find an expanding role for government,	23:54
	and this is of importance, and it's something,	23:57
	which by the way, Arthur Burns	24:00
	and his associates should be thinking about all the time	24:03
	is in the intermediate financing level	24:06
	by government of outside government activities,	24:13
	whenever the Federal Reserve is very tough on housing,	24:16
	then Congress and executive arrange	24:19
	to have the government do some floating	24:22
	of bonds by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae	24:25
	and Jenny somebody-or-other and there's still	24:31
	some more brainchildren to come	24:35
	and if you take in all the borrowing	24:40
	for purposes like this and throw that	24:42
	in the budget of the governments,	24:45
	at all level, then you do begin	24:49
	to see an increasing percentage	24:51
	of the resources of the country,	24:53
	not in government, not by government,	24:55
	but under government, strong government influence,	24:58
	but it would be a very peculiar theory	25:03
	of macroeconomics which could associate the 12% inflation	25:06
	with that particular factor and none	25:12
	of the experts at that table proceeded to do so.	25:16
	One of the experts there, Dr. Sprinkel,	25:23
	of the Harris Trust in Chicago,	25:26
	did emphasize the money levels of the budget	25:29
	but since the prices	25:34
	which everything, the prices of everything,	25:42
	which are important in deciding what this magnitude is,	25:46
	if he had deflated by that,	25:51
	then he would not have had his point.	25:53
	Moreover, he was the one seeming optimist	25:56
	about what's going to happen to the economy	25:58
	in the next year and he pointed, for example,	26:01
	to the fact that the leading indicators were pretty strong	26:04
	and I seem to recall over the years	26:08
	that Dr. Sprinkel has been one of the important experts	26:10
	interpreting those leading indicators.	26:14
	However, if he still follows that subject closely,	26:16
	he knows very well that many people	26:20
	inside the government and in particular,	26:22
	the Boston Federal Reserve Bank has systemically done	26:27
	what's suggested, namely, to deflate the leading indicators	26:33
	because just to have signs of inflation does not mean	26:39
	signs of strength in the real economy	26:44
	and when you begin to deflate,	26:46
	then the leading indicators are not all that strong.	26:51
	Lemme illustrate for example, if there's a frost	26:54
	in Minnesota and in the Dakotas and in Canada,	26:58
	then grain prices go up to limit in the commodity markets.	27:01
	This contributes strength to the sensitive price index.	27:05
	Well, on a simple-minded basis,	27:09
	the sensitive price index has been one	27:12
	of the leading indicators,	27:16
	but that's really an omen of disaster,	27:17
	not a good omen of strength in the economy	27:20
	when, in the present situation,	27:25
	those prices misbehave and I could go on	27:27
	and enumerate other examples of the inflation	27:29
	that is in the leading indicators.	27:33
	So, to come to the second point of agreement,	27:37
	the majority there indicated that what was crucial	27:40
	was not the cuts in the budget.	27:46
	They were rather cavalier on that particular topic.	27:52
	Thirdly, and this is what was being reflected there	27:58
	by both of these earlier things was	28:01
	there was pretty general agreement	28:04
	that it was not simple demand-pull inflation	28:06
	which we were suffering from.	28:11
	There was a great deal	28:13
	of emphasis placed upon supply factors.	28:13
	Hendrick Houthakker of Harvard, for example,	28:20
	had an omnibus bill with 45 different reforms in it,	28:23
	each of which would hurt some private interest	28:28
	but which would microeconomically improve the performance	28:31
	of the American economy and probably	28:35
	also improve the equity of the American economy	28:38
	and, when put in the for the first time,	28:41
	would make a one-time contribution	28:45
	to reducing the current rate of inflation.	28:48
	I thought that the emphasis upon supply was a good one,	28:54
	but it ought not to have been thought,	28:57
	as it seemed to be thought there,	29:00
	that there was a exhaustive dichotomy	29:02
	between demand factors and supply factors	29:06
	because there was a third factor,	29:09
	which I thought ought to be stressed	29:11
	and it certainly isn't simple demand	29:14
	but also can't be called simple supply.	29:16
	Namely, even when the market demand is soft,	29:19
	even when the supply capabilities	29:25
	of a set of industries is good,	29:28
	let's take the automobile industry, for example,	29:31
	there can be a tendency for prices quoted	29:33
	to rise and for example, Dr. Houthakker said	29:38
	that it was a scandal from an anti-trust viewpoint	29:46
	that General Motors and the other three big companies	29:48
	were raising their prices on autos.	29:53
	Now that's not a supply factor in the sense	29:55
	of a harvest failure but it's an incomes policy worsening.	29:57
	And so, although incomes policy is not the best word,	30:05
	but because my time is short, I'll stick with that,	30:09
	I think that there should have been more emphasis there	30:11
	on the problem of demand, the problem of supply,	30:15
	and the problem of the pricing out,	30:19
	in an incomes policy sense, of each degree	30:22
	of balance of supply and demand.	30:26
	Well, lemme just finish since the time is running out.	30:30
	There was, to me, a surprising amount	30:35
	of support, except it was a minority,	30:39
	definite minority but there were three or four people there	30:42
	who seemed to be favorable to price/wage controls.	30:46
	Professor Galbraith, there's no surprise in that	30:55
	but it seemed as if Robert Nathan,	30:57
	of the consulting firm that bears his name,	31:00
	was in favor of that and it actually shocked	31:04
	and outraged George Schultz, who had been	31:10
	with the vast majority, in fact leading it,	31:13
	in saying that it was time	31:17
	for the Federal Reserve to ease up.	31:18
	Well, all things considered, given	31:23
	that you had 28 different minds there,	31:25
	it seems to me that there was an impressive amount	31:30
	of agreement and I think the agreement was	31:34
	in the direction of compromising	31:39
	with the various evils in the problem.	31:43
	And I dare say that a service was done,	31:46
	even to those whose major apprehension is	31:50
	with respect to the rate of inflation	31:56
	because what they were advocating was just,	31:58
	politically, not feasible, not in the cards	32:02
	and it was going to be self-defeating.	32:05
	It was going to result in a reversal	32:06
	in the other direction which none of us would want.	32:09
-	If you have any comments or questions	32:15
	for Professor Samuelson, address them	32:17
	to Instructional Dynamics Incorporated,	32:19
	450 East Ohio Street, Chicago, Illinois, 60611.	32:22

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Title:

Tape 162 - Economist meet at the summit

Date:

1974

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Samuelson, Paul A. (Paul Anthony), 1915-2009

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Paul A. Samuelson papers, 1933-2010 and undated

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Tape 162 - Economist meet at the summit

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