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- <text id=89TT2211>
- <title>
- Aug. 28, 1989: Business Notes:Interest Rates
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Aug. 28, 1989 World War II:50th Anniversary
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 57
- Business Notes
- INTEREST RATES
- The Sniping May Backfire
- </hdr><body>
- <p> While Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is a loyal
- Republican, he has taken pains to avoid any appearance of
- partisanship. And for its part, the Bush Administration has
- refrained from publicly admonishing Greenspan over monetary
- policy. But that restraint evaporated last week when Budget
- Director Richard Darman, appearing on NBC's Meet the Press,
- accused the Federal Reserve Board of keeping interest rates too
- high because of an exaggerated concern about inflation. "If we
- do have a recession, I think it will be because they erred on
- the side of caution," said Darman.
- </p>
- <p> Rather than disavow the Budget Director's comments, Bush
- told a news conference on Tuesday that "I can feel very
- comfortable with his sallying forth and saying that." While
- Darman's critique was not directed at Greenspan personally,
- former Federal Reserve Governor Lyle Gramley thinks the ploy may
- backfire. Said he: "The Fed cannot be seen as knuckling under
- to pressure from the Administration."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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