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PREM19/1654
USA (Economic situation in the United States) (Part 2)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 411

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Date Value Title
83 Mar 14 Mo Major US: UKE Washington telegram 620 to FCO (1920Z) (“U.S. economy: views of private forecasters”) [“have become more optimistic during the past month”] [declassified 2014]
83 Mar 22 Tu Major US: UKE Washington telegram 721 to FCO (2245Z) (“US economy: GNP growth in the first quarter of 1983”) [“The main factors behind the recovery so far seem therefore to be a deceleration in inventory drawdown and the recovery in housing”] [declassified 2014]
83 Apr 13 We Major US: UKE Washington telegram 969 to FCO (1715Z) (“US budget deficit”) [deficits for 1983-84 will be higher than forecast; deficits for 1985-88 will be lower than forecast] [declassified 2014]
83 Apr 13 We Major US: UKE Washington telegram 970 to FCO (1720Z) (“US monetary policy”) [Volcker appearance before banking committee] [declassified 2014]
83 Apr 14 Th Major US: Alan Walters minute to MT (“United States economic policy”) [“There is some evidence that the Fed is reducing the very rapid rate of monetary growth that began in July 1982”] [declassified 2014]
83 Apr 22 Fr Major US: UKE Washington telegram 1099 to FCO (2340Z) (“US economy: recent developments”) [“There is now confirmation that a US economic recovery is under way”] [declassified 2014]
83 May 14 Sa Major US: UKE Washington telegram 1345 to FCO (1840Z) (“Prospects for reducing the US budget deficit: latest developments in Congress”) [“The annual US budget battle if anything is proving more than usually dis-orderly”] [declassified 2014]
83 May 17 Tu Major US: Alan Walters minute to MT (“Williamsburg: The thematic paper (revised) 12 May 1983”) [exchange rates & intervention; a new Bretton Woods; aid/IMF] [declassified 2014]
83 May 29 Su Major US: UKE Washington telegram 1805 to FCO (0205Z) (“President Reagan’s press conference of 28 June: US economy”) [“The US economy was beginning to sparkle”] [declassified 2014]
83 Jun 24 Fr Major US: Alan Walters minute to MT (“United States economy”) [doubts strength of US recovery] [declassified 2014]
83 Jun 29 We Major US: UKE Washington telegram 1813 to FCO (2200Z) (“US economy: higher growth forecasts”) [deficit reduction proposals, tax reform] [declassified 2014]
83 Jul 7 Th Major US: UKE Washington telegram 1903 to FCO (2254Z) (“Call on Secretary Regan”) [Regan “saw no case for cooling down the economy when it had not yet had a chance to hot up”] [declassified 2014]
83 Jul 20 We Major US: Cockfield minute to MT (US economy) [“The implications for our own policy are profound”] [declassified 2014]
83 Aug 5 Fr Major US: UKE Washington telegram 2211 to FCO (2355Z) (“US intervention in foreign exchange markets”) [“desire to smooth the volatility of the Dollar/Deutschemark rate”] [declassified 2014]
83 Sep 5 Mo Major US: John Moore PS letter to No.10 (Economic Secretary’s meetings in Washington) [US economic prospects] [declassified 2014]
83 Oct 20 Th Major US: UKE Washington telegram 3036 to FCO (0139Z) (“President Reagan’s press conference: the US economy”) [Reagan said that “1000 days into his administration a strong recovery was under way”] [declassified 2014]
83 Oct 21 Fr Major US: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (“Mr Kinnock and the US Budget Deficit”) [response to Kinnock’s suggestion “that we should emulate the US budget deficit in pursuit of growth”] [declassified 2014]
83 Nov 9 We Major US: Alan Walters minute to MT (“US economy and inflation in 1984”) [“by the end of 1984 the inflation rate will reach 6% and might even be as high as 9%”] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 2 Fr Major US: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“The US economy”) [“The US economy is rushing forward on the back of easy money and a traditional Keynesian stimulus to the economy”] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 5 Mo Major US: UKE Washington telegram 3660 to FCO (2254Z) (“U.S. economy: latest developments”) [“the U.S. economy is undergoing a rapid expansion”] [declassified 2014]