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? |
PREM19/1654 - download whole file (PDF, 75.98 MB)
Selections from this file
Showing items 21 - 40 of 86
| Date | Value |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 84 Jun 1 Fr | Major | US: No.10 internal minute: Policy Unit to Turnbull (“US proposals on company cars”) [“this particular measure is protectionist”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 16 Mo | Major | US: No.10 letter to US Ambassador to West Germany (speech to the Industrie Club: ‘The American Trade Deficit in Perspective’) [MT: “applies your customary clarity & wisdom to the enormous issues that face us”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jun 28 Th | Major | US: No.10 letter to US Embassy (US tax reform measures in relation to imported cars) [“not discriminatory”] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Dec 8 Th | Major | US: No.10 note for the record (“Prime Minister’s comments on US budget deficit”) [line to take] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 May 18 Fr | Major | US: No.10 note to MT (Continental Illinois rescue) [“There was no detectable reaction in the foreign exchange markets where the Gulf was the dominant factor”] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Dec 21 We | Major | US: No.10 note to MT (Peter Tapsell letter handed to John Coles) [US deficit] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 10 Fr | Major | US: No.10 note to MT (Volcker’s views on US economy) [article on deficit threat] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Feb 18 Mo | Major | 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 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] |
| 82 Oct 28 Th | Major | US: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Arthur Burns) [Burns said the US economy “had bottomed out and there would be some slight growth in the coming year”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jun 5 Tu | Key | US: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Reagan) [East/West relations - “Mrs Thatcher’s general impression was that the US Government was rather at a loss as to how to proceed”; Middle East; Central America; Northern Ireland; trade issues; Laker case] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Sep 20 Th | Major | US: President of the Society of Motor Manufacturers & Traders letter to MT (“Selective Distribution Block Exemption”) [“The regulation will place in the hands of bureaucrats in Brussels the right to be judge and jury over prices”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 May 24 Th | Major | US: Rolls-Royce letter to MT (US car tax legislation) [legislation “would clearly discriminate against higher priced imported cars”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jul 13 Fr | Major | US: Rolls-Royce letter to MT (US car tax legislation) [“your personal intervention with President Reagan was crucial in achieving amendments”] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Dec 8 Th | Major | US: Treasury briefing (“Chancellor’s meetings with Mr Regan, 8 December”) [“Cannot disguise own view that budget deficit is key”] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Feb 20 We | Major | US: Treasury minute to No.10 (Volcker statement to Banking Committee) [“the progressive easing of reserve conditions had come to an end and open market operations were being conducted more cautiously”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Dec 12 We | Major | US: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchquer, Paul Volcker) [US economy, deficit, banking system] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jan 17 Tu | Major | US: Treasury record of conversation (Lawson, Ambassador Price) [Price “very much afraid that the Budget proposals would show no reduction in the US deficit”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jun 7 Th | Major | US: Treasury record of conversation (Lawson, Japanese Finance Minister Takeshita) [unitary tax, US deficit, international debt, Japanese capital markets, IDA supplemetary] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Feb 28 Th | Major | US: UKE Washington letter to Treasury (Volcker testimony to House Banking Committee and Senate Foreign Relations Committee) [“we are in a real sense living on borrowed money and time”] [declassified 2014] |