URL: https://digitalcollections.hoover.org/objects/576
Collection Structure Commonwealth Club of California records >  Sound recordings of club programs >  Lessons We Never Learned from History
Item Title Lessons We Never Learned from History
Collection Title Commonwealth Club of California records
Speaker Menk, Louis W.
Date Created December 06, 1974
Description Menk talks about inflation in the United States. Its chief cause was excess demand created by error in monetary and fiscal policies, unwise agricultural policies, and the successful Arab cartelization of petroleum output. The best way to deal with it is to increase productivity, not to restrict it. Businesses and industries should support and supplement the government's anti-inflation fiscal policies by increasing output and stressing higher productivity. United States coal could be used to supply us with decades of energy, which would greatly reduce our dependence on the Middle East. Most importantly, Menk points out that it is necessary for government and business to work together to solve our current economic problems.
Subject(s) Business and politics Public-private sector cooperation United States Economic conditions
Language(s) English
Country of Origin United States
Place Recorded San Francisco, California, United States
Format Sound Recording
Medium speeches (documents)
Hoover ID Program 19741206; 2003c87_a_0010199
Record Number 2003C87.675
Collection Guide https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3g5032c1
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