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PDF 88 Jul 1 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Department of Trade & Industry minute to Lord Young ("Credit business in May") [press notice] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jul 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("The state of the economy") ["increasing excess demand ... the real problem area is the balance of payments ... the real cause for concern is monetary policy"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jul 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("The markets") [MT meeting with Chancellor to discuss interest rates; case for pressing him an early increase of more than 0.5 per cent (MT ticked)] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jul 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer) [decision to raise interest rates by one half per cent, MT wanting full one percent] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jul 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Wicks minute for Robin Butler ("Sir Alan Walters") [comments in his press article annoyed Lawson; Walters agrees to clear further statements with Wicks] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jul 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Interest rates") [Lawson wants 0.5 per cent increase today - MT agrees but would prefer 1 per cent as "more decisive"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jul 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Sir Alan Walters") [public comments feeding renewed media speculation of MT rift with Lawson; Walters agrees not to give further interviews; copies of articles] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jul 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Wicks minute for MT ("Sir Alan Walters") [Walters comments in the press; Lawson saying he could not work with Walters if he were to return] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jul 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Ingham minute for Gray ("Sir Alan Walters") [Walters said Evening Standard misquoted him; lively lobby; Perks told Walters to shut up] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jul 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Wicks letter to Sir Alan Walters (follow-up to phone conversations) ["if you are to return here, you must refrain from all public comment which could have, or be interpreted as having, any bearing on British economic policy"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jul 21 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Markets" - intervention of over $600m) [MT wants interest rate rise "very early next week"; "HIS [Lawson's] REPUTATION IS AT STAKE"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jul 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer, Paul Gray) [Lawson distressed that his IEA speech was being interpreted as a "declaration of independence"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jul 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson letter to Conservative MPs ("Chancellor's end-of-term letter") [continued strength of the economy] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jul 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Wicks minute for Butler (Alan Walters article for National Interest) [phoned him urging withdrawal from publication as reviving recent 'embarrassment'; Walters readily agreed] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jul 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lord Young PS letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("October stock market fall") [Young decided to publish revised report, thinking it would leak anyway] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jul 28 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Wicks minute for Butler (Alan Walters interview in Daily Mail) [told him he had to behave like a Trappist monk or "his return to No.10 would be in serious doubt"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Aug 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 airborne telegram to Cabinet Office (Treasury press release regarding foreign currency borrowing programme) [MT wishes to stress repayment component] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Aug 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Wicks minute for Bearpark (Alan Walters's articles) [these seem ok, send to Treasury; Alan's lecture series in the autumn "gives me the colly-wobbles"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Aug 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Bearpark minute for Butler (Alan Walters's articles) [proposed Wicks letter] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Aug 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Wicks letter to Sir Alan Walters (articles Walters has sent him) ["most helpful" to see them; danger of his Johns Hopkins lectures being infitrated by the press] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Aug 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters note for Gray ("A Central Bank for Europe") ["on my visits to No.10, I fear that I may have left the wrong impression of my thinking"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Aug 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (Evening Market Report) ["the 1% rise seems to have done the trick in holding the pound steady despite the trade figures"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Aug 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (markets) [1 per cent interest rate rise holding pound steady; Lawson spreading reassurance, Kinnock on news sounded more like "sour grapes"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Sep 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Today's Markets") [sterling weakened in afternoon; suggests (and MT agrees) further intervention tomorrow in London] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Sep 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Today's Markets") [MT agrees further intervention tomorrow if sterling remains weak] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Sep 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Today's Market Report") [Treasury action following No.10 request for intervention to check sterling weakness] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Sep 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Alan Walters: 5 September") ["press interest in the Lawson/Walters stories has died down"; Walters letter on a "Central Bank for Europe"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Sep 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("The Economy: current assessment") ["The economy is showing all the signs of a classic explosion of demanded generated by easy money and credit"; right to raise interest rates, but danger of overshooting] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Sep 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters letter to No.10 ("The ERM, CBE, and 1990/92") ["inside view of the Commission from a supporter of... [MT] and her policies"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Sep 14 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson speech in Hornchurch (extract) ["The transformation of the Supply side"] [cover page declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Sep 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute for Grice ("M0 Figures") [Grice notes figures show no evidence of economy slowing, but Bank thinks postal dispute has distorted them] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Sep 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute ("Provisional money figures - August") [line to take for press release] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Sep 17 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters letter to No.10 (CBI survey of UK Monetary Policy) [copy of his letter to CBI Director-General pointing out "serious errors of fact, analysis and interpretation"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Sep 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Lotteries") [MT approves Hurd proposals for regulations on 'multiple' lotteries & financial limits on single lotteries, but not keen on proposal for Green Paper on national lotteries] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Oct 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Treasury monthly monetary assessment") ["not good news for inflation prospects"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Oct 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Alan Walters") ["usual stocktaking discussion": interest rates/inflation; Market management; Lord Mayor's Banquet speech] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (Guinness Mahon: Equiticorp shares sale to Tokai) ["would be the first Japanese acquisition of a British merchant bank"; decision not to block the bid] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Wicks letter to Sir Alan Walters (IEA/Cato Conference) [glad he so readily agreed to pull out of speech] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Treasury economic forecast") ["internal forecast makes depressing reading... you may want to... stress your concerns"] [declassified Jul 2016]
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