1982 Oct 12 - 1985 Feb 28
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 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| 82 Nov 19 Fr | Major | US: UKE Washington record of conversations (Alan Walters visiting Donald Regan, Beryl Sprinkel, Paul Volcker, Mark Leland, Stephen Axilrod, AIE staff) [monetary policy; interest rates; independence of the Fed] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jul 9 Mo | Major | 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] |
| 84 Mar 24 Sa | Major | US: UKE Washington telegram 1009 to FCO (0014Z) (“US economy: higher interest rates”) [“The expansion has resulted in a strong growth in the private demand for credit”] [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] |
| 84 Apr 25 We | Major | US: UKE Washington telegram 11 to FCO (“Outlook for the US budget deficit: Chief Secretary’s visit to Washington”) [consensus that deficit reduction package will pass Congress but deficit still likely post-November elections] [declassified 2014] |
| 82 Oct 25 Mo | Major | US: UKE Washington telegram 12 to FCO (2140Z) (“US economy”) [“the immediate prospects for the US economy may be less optimistic than the recent behaviour of the New York Stock Exchange might indicate”] [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] |
| 85 Feb 17 Su | Major | US: UKE Washington telegram 152 to FCO (2315Z) (Regan statement on G5) [commitment to greater exchange market stability] [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 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] |
| 84 Jul 14 Sa | Major | US: UKE Washington telegram 2151 to FCO (1535Z) (“1984 Democratic platform: growth, prosperity and jobs”) [“hardly sets out a coherent, let alone costed, economic programme”] [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] |
| 84 Jul 26 Th | Major | US: UKE Washington telegram 2271 to FCO (0125Z) (“US monetary policy”) [Volcker warning of slower growth, call for deficit reduction, relationship between deficits and interest rates] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Jan 31 Mo | Major | US: UKE Washington telegram 243 to FCO (0600Z) (“United States: Budget for FY84”) [“forecast is for some recovery in the first half of 1983 with greater momentum gathering in the second half”] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Jan 31 Mo | Major | US: UKE Washington telegram 246 to FCO (2300Z) (“US economy: background briefing on the budget and the economic report of the President”) [“the administration’s short-term forecast was intended to be realistic and was not simply a goal”] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Feb 1 Tu | Major | US: UKE Washington telegram 251 to FCO (1745Z) (“Which Reagan?”) [“Was the President’s widely-noticed conciliatory tone merely cosmetic?”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Aug 31 Fr | Major | US: UKE Washington telegram 2590 to FCO (2245Z) (“The US economy: movements in the leading index of economic indicators”) [two consecutive months of decline; a third would signal a downturn] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Feb 2 We | Major | US: UKE Washington telegram 268 to FCO (2325Z) (“Initial reactions to President Reagan’s FY84 budget proposals”) [“doubts as to whether the proposals for reducing the deficit reflect any major change in the administration’s priorities”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Sep 17 Mo | Major | US: UKE Washington telegram 2750 to FCO (1637Z) (“US economy: prospects for deficit reduction and tax reform”) [further deficit reduction next year unlikely, prospects for fundamental tax reform highly problematical] [declassified 2014] |