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Economy: Alan Walters diary (interest rates) [interest rates tumbling; economists pleased with Walters criticism of Telecom paper][released 2012]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: Walters MSS (Churchill Archives Centre): WTRS 3/1/2
Editorial comments: Read other entries from this diary. View all Walters documents. The original diary can be studied here
Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 82
Themes: Monetary policy, Public spending & borrowing

Monday 12th July 1982

Interest rates tumbling - 3 month interbank falls from 13% last Monday to 123/8 today

Saw Michael Beesley - who tells me that economists were very pleased with my rubbishing of the Telecom Cttee Paper but critical issue is multiple use of BT network

Terry [Terry Burns] + Ferdy [Ferdinand Mount] - talked about control of public spending

Talked to U. of Southern Mississippi Students

- a waste of time indeed

Dinner with Alfred [Alfred Sherman or Goldstein?]