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Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Hoskyns and Wolfson frustrated; MT’s tactics are awful][released 2012]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: Walters MSS (Churchill Archives Centre): WTRS 3/1/1
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 81
Themes: Monetary policy, Pay

Tuesday 27th October 1981

JH [John Hoskyns] and DW [David Wolfson] are v. frustrated. - share her aim but her tactics are awful - does not know how to organise her time or to deal with meetings and colleagues.

Tuesday Club Dinner: Nield, Higgins - Keynesians all - except Pepper, Griffiths

Money is Means of Payment - not Credit - made some progress in pointing out the errors that arise in analysis. David Henderson thought it v. good. Easy to dispose of arguments.