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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

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

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 411
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84 Jul 9 Mon Economy/US: Alan Walters minute to MT (“Feldstein’s parting shots”) [“How long can this awful trinity of high deficit, dollar and interest rates continue?”] [declassified 2014]
83 Feb 25 Fri US: Alan Walters minute to MT (“US economy: Chancellor’s memorandum 24 February”) [“the Fed’s policy has turned from being disinflationary to one that is markedly inflationary”] [declassified 2014]
83 Apr 14 Thu 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 Jun 24 Fri US: Alan Walters minute to MT (“United States economy”) [doubts strength of US recovery] [declassified 2014]
83 May 17 Tue 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 Nov 9 Wed 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]
84 Nov 27 Tue US: Alan Walters minute to MT (“A banking crisis in the United States”) [“The balance sheets of US banks … are in a parlous state and cannot be quickly recapitalised”] [declassified 2014]
84 May 24 Thu US: Chairman of BL PLC letter to MT (US car tax legislation) [“We are mobilising opinion among United States owners and dealers who support our position”] [declassified 2014]
84 May 24 Thu US: Rolls-Royce letter to MT (US car tax legislation) [legislation “would clearly discriminate against higher priced imported cars”] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 13 Fri US: Rolls-Royce letter to MT (US car tax legislation) [“your personal intervention with President Reagan was crucial in achieving amendments”] [declassified 2014]
84 Jun 1 Fri US: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (“US proposals to limit tax benefits on company cars”) [advises MT not write formally to Reagan but issue should be flagged with White House] [declassified 2014]
84 Jun 1 Fri US: No.10 internal minute: Policy Unit to Turnbull (“US proposals on company cars”) [“this particular measure is protectionist”] [declassified 2014]
84 Jun 1 Fri US: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (“US Proposals To Limit Tax Benefits on Company Cars”) [MT cannot raise the issue bilaterally with Reagan but is happy to sign a note] [declassified 2014]
84 Jun 28 Thu US: No.10 letter to US Embassy (US tax reform measures in relation to imported cars) [“not discriminatory”] [declassified 2014]
82 Nov 24 Wed US: Alan Walters minute to MT (“United States economic policy”) [“predominant feeling… one of uncertainty, loss of confidence, confusion and flux”] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 2 Fri 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]
85 Feb 18 Mon US: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Reaganomics”) [“appealing to his own political sense on what real high rates and large deficits are doing to his own domestic manufacturing base, and to the US banking system, may bring the message home”] [declassified 2014]
83 Feb 24 Thu US: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“The US economy”) [“Monetary policy appears to be in some disarray”] [declassified 2014]
83 Jul 20 Wed US: Cockfield minute to MT (US economy) [“The implications for our own policy are profound”] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 8 Thu US: No.10 note for the record (“Prime Minister’s comments on US budget deficit”) [line to take] [declassified 2014]