INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SYSTEM see also World Bank
Addresses
American Policy To Promote World Development, W. Allen Wallis, 16319-16321 [20JN]
IMF Funding: President Reagan (excerpt), 34046 [18NO]
International Finance, Representative Kemp, 13207, 13208 [19MY]
International Lending—Trade, Not Aid: Hans H. Angermueller, 32048-32049, 32092 [10NO]
International Monetary Fund, Anthony M. Solomon, 25984 [27SE]
Looking Toward the Summit—International Trade Issues at Williamsburg, Lee L. Morgan, Caterpillar Tractor Co., 20906 [26JY]
Problem of International Borrowing, Paul Craig Roberts, 20898 [26JY]
U.S. Participation in the IMF, President Reagan (excerpt), 26499 [29SE]
Amendments
IMF: reauthorize (S. 695), 14711-14714, 14715, 14718, 14728, 14742, 14743 [7JN], 14911-14913, 14918, 14920, 14924, 14936, 14941-14945, 14950, 14951, 14954, 14995-14997 [8JN]
———U.S. contribution (H.R. 2957), 19177 [14JY], 19809 [19JY], 20126 [20JY], 20281 [21JY], 20862, 20871, 20872, 20875, 20901, 20908, 21017 [26JY], 21260 [27JY], 21520, 21522 [28JY], 21652, 21672, 21677, 21678, 21752 [29JY]
International banking activities: regulation (H.R. 2957), 19177 [14JY]
International Monetary Fund: increase U.S. quota (S. 695), 13297 [23MY]
International Recovery and Financial Stability Act: enact ( S. 695; H.R. 2957), 22682-22691 [4AU]
———enact (H.R. 2957), 22083 [1AU], 22333 [2AU], 22650, 22653, 22655, 22656, 22658, 22659, 22660, 22661, 22663, 22664, 22665, 22669, 22670, 22671, 22672, 22673, 22674, 22675, 22676, 22678, 22679 [3AU]
International Trade and Investment Act: enact (S. 144), 8970-8973 [19AP], 9093-9096, 9110-9159 [20AP], 9409-9457, 9520-9521 [21AP]
Analyses
H.R. 2930, International Recovery and Financial Stability Act, 11338 [5MY]
S. 695, U.S. Participation in the International Monetary Fund, 4078 [7MR]
S. 979, extension and reauthorization of the Export Administration Act, 7649-7651 [6AP]
Articles and editorials
American Leadership at Williamsburg?, 13894 [25MY]
Bailout Isn't Necessary, 4472 [9MR]
Bank Responsibility for Mexico's Woes, 8874 [18AP]
Bankers' Bluff of 1983, 12944 [18MY]
Banking Bailout, 8237 [12AP]
Banking Crisis Will Test Leaders, 11025 [4MY]
Banks' Friends Have Put Them Over a Barrel, 33696 [17NO]
Banks Have Been Wrong, Wrong, Wrong, 14933 [8JN]
Banks Should Have Known Better, 7453 [24MR]
Bethesda Broker Charged With Illegal Sale of Arms, 12807 [18MY]
Brazil Finds Nice-Guy Role in Debt Drama Difficult, 8878 [18AP]
Brazil Seeks Easing of IMF Terms, 11720 [10MY]
Chileans Request $200 Million Loan To Meet IMF Goals, 12806 [18MY]
China Lends Yugoslavia $120 Million on Eve of Hu Visit to Belgrade, 12044 [11MY]
Commercial Banks Are Boosting Capital at Record Pace, 33715 [17NO]
Compensatory Financing Rules Can Be Counterproductive, 31060 [4NO]
Cut Off the International Loan Lushes, 7825 [7AP]
Debt, Not Dominoes, 15086 [8JN]
Debt Crisis—No Need for IMF Bailout, 11129 [4MY]
``Debt Crisis''—No Need for IMF Bailout, 10097 [27AP]
Devastating Impact on U.S. Industry—The Dollar's Strength Boosts Prices on Exports and Lures Imports, 19879 [20JY]
Dollar Fever Infects the World—A $100 Billion Loss in GNP and a Flood of Capital From Europe, 19877 [20JY]
East-West/North-South—Peace and Prosperity?, 7840-7843 [7AP]
ECU—A New, International Currency?, 11030 [4MY]
Efforts To Strengthen the World's Monetary System (excerpt), 20652 [25JY]
Farmers Need the I.M.F., 31913 [10NO]
Foreign Affairs—``Sparkle''?, 19888 [20JY]
Hope Stirs for World Debt Relief, 9218 [20AP]
House Banking Committee Greasing Skids for IMF, 8660 [14AP]
How the Debt Bomb Might Be Defused, 14931-14933 [8JN]
How the IMF Could Become a Real S&P for International Debt, 24594 [19SE]
How Threatening Is the World Debt?, 18838 [12JY]
How To Cool the Dollar—Even the Experts Can't Agree, 19880 [20JY]
I.M.F. Easing Chile Loan, 11547 [9MY]
IMF Austerity Prescriptions Could Be Hazardous, 2595 [22FE]
IMF Bill Is Really a Jobs Bill, 25973, 25981 [27SE]
IMF Bucks—Where Many of Them Stop Is Here, 28137 [18OC]
IMF Cliffhanger, 20391 [21JY]
IMF Helps To Make the Debt Problems Worse, 33695 [17NO]
IMF Increase Needed, 21478 [28JY]
IMF Pay and Benefits Scrutinized, 13304 [23MY]
IMF Quota Increase (excerpt), 20895 [26JY]
IMF (sundry excerpts), 34011 [18NO]
IMF—As in ``Miffed'', 29878 [28OC]
IMF—The Crutch That Cripples, 10386 [28AP]
In for a Dime, 403 [26JA]
International Trade and Investment Act (S. 144) (sundry), 9412, 9418-9423 [21AP]
Let's Not Make This Deal, 33704 [17NO]
Let's Talk Money at Williamsburg, 12026 [11MY]
Like It or Not, We Have to Help Out the IMF, 28800 [20OC]
Mr. Reagan on the IMF, 26499 [29SE]
Mr. Reagan's Summit Victory, 14465 [6JN]
Muscular Dollar—An Economic Liability, 19888 [20JY]
Myths That Distort the First World's View of Third World Debts, 32232 [10NO]
Nearer, My God, to Thee?, 8344 [13AP]
Needing Those Dollars, 26232 [28SE]
New Asian Equation—Asia's Drive To Development, 10378 [28AP]
``No'' to More Money for the IMF, 32641 [15NO]
Participation in the IMF's Compensatory Facilities, 14483 [6JN]
Policy That Closes U.S. Copper Mines, 7454 [24MR]
Price of IMF Bailout Is Rapidly Escalating, 24469 [15SE]
Real Costs of World Debt, 2708 [22FE]
Resolving the Debt Crisis, 29467 [26OC]
Saving the IMF, 27180 [4OC]
Signs of Strain in Sao Paulo, 8680 [14AP]
Sky Hasn't Fallen, 23363 [4AU]
Snub for U.S. Regulators, 12007 [11MY]
Solution to World Debt Is World Growth, 2707 [22FE]
Stability Possible Within Floating Rate System, 19887 [20JY]
This Bailout Still Isn't Necessary, 7581 [5AP]
Tighter Supervision Needed on Foreign Loans, 2897 [24FE]
Time for Congress To Look Into ``Volckergate'', 8073 [12AP]
To Ease Nigeria's Debt Crisis, 28142 [18OC]
Two Ways With Bank Claims, 10739 [3MY]
Way To Defuse the World Debt Bomb, 33696 [17NO]
We Pay and the LDC's Get a Blank Check, 11839 [11MY]
Weintraub Optimistic About U.S. Bank Role in World Debt Picture, 18838 [12JY]
Weintraub Optimistic About U.S. Bank Role in World Debt Picture (interview), 12639 [17MY]
West Presses Efforts To Halt ``Time Bomb'' of Third World Debt, 11425 [6MY], 11541 [9MY]
What Debt Crisis?, 11842 [11MY]
What Mexico's President Must Be Thinking Right Now, 8667 [14AP]
Why Congress Should Pass IMF Quota Hike, 15540 [13JN], 16683 [21JN]
Why Should Congress Lend Foreign Banks a Hand?, 20098 [20JY]
Why Should We Bail Out the Big Banks?, 8848 [18AP]
Words of Williamsburg, 14466 [6JN]
World Debt Crisis, 7232 [24MR]
Write Down Loans? Perish the Thought, 13157 [19MY], 14923 [8JN], 33690 [17NO]
Bills and resolutions
Apartheid: oppose aid to any country which practices (see H.R. 1083)
Bretton Woods Agreements Act: amend (see H.R. 2756)
Communist countries: report to Congress concerning loans (see H.R. 4549)
Developing countries: rescheduling of debts (see H.R. 2378)
Foreign countries: rescheduling of debts (see H.R. 2378)
Foreign loans: impose restrictions on certain (see H.R. 2378)
IMF: authorize increase in U.S. quota (see H.R. 1907)
———increase U.S. participation (see H.R. 2756)
———U.S. participation (see S. 695, 833; H.R. 2378, 2930, 2957)
International financial system: condition (see S. Con. Res. 43)
———stabilize (see S. Con. Res. 39; H. Con. Res. 130)
Multilateral development banks: U.S. participation (see H.R. 2957)
Nuclear weapons: prohibit aid to countries not a party to limited test ban treaty (see H.R. 3375)
Communiques
Impact of U.S. participation in the IMF on the international debt problem: Dept. of the Treasury (excerpt), 20880 [26JY]
Documents
International Financing System, 14480 [6JN]
Explanations
H. Con. Res. 130, restoration of a stable monetary system, 13614 [24MY]
Interviews
IMF loans—bailing the banks in deeper, Craig Roberts, 7831-7833 [7AP]
``Sooner or Later the Dollar Has To Start Weakening,'' with Sec. of the Treasury Regan, 19878 [20JY]
Letters
Appropriations for the International Development Association, Terence Cardinal Cooke, 25080 [21SE]
Compromise legislation on IMF authorization: Ralph Nader and Jonathan Brown for the Public Interest Research Group, 34829 [18NO]
Exchange rate disequilibria: National Association of Manufacturers, 19886 [20JY]
IMF policies, 26 Members of Congress, 18575 [11JY]
IMF quotas, Milton Friedman, 33689 [17NO]
IMF reauthorization (S. 695), 14914 [8JN]
Increase U.S. participation in the IMF, President Reagan, 14476 [6JN]
International Recovery and Financial Stability Act: Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, 22657 [3AU]
International Trade and Investment Act (S. 144): former Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr., 9413 [21AP]
———(sundry), 9413, 9416, 9429 [21AP]
Promote the Williamsburg Summit: National Association of Manufacturers, 11417 [6MY]
U.S. participation in the IMF: Dept. of Agriculture, 20636 [25JY], 20866 [26JY]
———Dept. of the Treasury, 20866 [26JY]
———Edwin J. Gray, Federal Home Loan Bank Board, 20637 [25JY], 20867 [26JY]
———Henry H. Fowler, 20866 [26JY]
———Paul A. Volcker, Federal Reserve System, 20637 [25JY], 20865 [26JY]
———President Reagan, 19800 [19JY], 20100 [20JY], 20635, 20637 [25JY], 20865 [26JY]
———Public Securities Association, 20880 [26JY]
———Secretaries of State and the Treasury, 20635 [25JY], 20865 [26JY]
———U.S. Trade Representative Brock, 20636 [25JY], 20867 [26JY]
U.S. participation in the International Monetary Fund: President Reagan, 4077 [7MR]
U.S. policy toward Chile: Senators Kennedy and Proxmire, 12807 [18MY]
Use of IMF fund regarding communist dictatorships, President Reagan (excerpt), 29186 [25OC]
Will the real Simon please return? R. T. McNamar, 11135 [4MY]
Lists
Dislocated employee legislation—International Trade and Investment Act, 9456 [21AP]
Kansas bankers and S&L executives who played a significant role in drafting the Dole compromise on withholding, 9426 [21AP]
Organizations supporting the International Trade and Investment Act (S. 144), 9448 [21AP]
Memorandums
Balance-of-payments shortfall in the Dominican Republic threatens IMF stabilization program, 18219 [29JN]
Motion
International Recovery and Financial Stability Act: enact (H.R. 2957), insert test in S. 695, 22682 [3AU]
Papers
Entitlement of the Republic of China To Retain Its Membership in the Asian Development Bank, Frank Church, 22405-22408 [3AU]
Financial Implications of Oil Price Changes, 14938-14941 [8JN]
International Debt Problem, Ad Hoc Committee on International Debt and U.S. Financial Policies, 7064-7066 [23MR]
International Debt Problem, Insolvency and Illiquidity—A Policy Proposal, Ad Hoc Committee on International Debt and U.S. Financial Policies, 3084 [28FE]
International Monetary Reform, Robert Mundell, 13207 [19MY]
Moral Hazard of IMF Lending, Roland Vaubel, 6655-6658 [22MR]
Petitions
IMF funding: San Diego, Calif., Federation of Republican Women's Clubs, 11671 [10MY]
Remarks in House
Apartheid: U.S. to oppose assistance by the IMF to countries practicing (H.R. 1083), 14168 [26MY]
Appropriations: making supplemental (H.R. 3959), conference report, 34015, 34016 [18NO]
China, People's Republic of: bilateral foreign aid, 12043 [11MY]
Communist countries: use of IMF funds, 29186 [25OC]
Developing countries: rescheduling of debts (H.J. Res. 208), 5886 [17MR]
Economic policy: direction, 34746 [18NO]
Foreign countries: financial crisis, 15086 [8JN]
———rescheduling of debts (H.J. Res. 208), 5886 [17MR]
IMF: funding, 18837 [12JY]
———funding the International Development Association, 25080 [21SE]
———high salaried employees, 20180 [21JY]
———impact of certain loan agreements on the poor, 18303 [30JN]
———increase U.S. contribution, 25715 [26SE], 25890 [27SE], 25973, 25980 [27SE], 26232 [28SE], 27180 [4OC], 28800 [20OC], 29467 [26OC]
———increase U.S. contribution (H.R. 2957), 25983 [27SE]
———infringement on national sovereignty, 29878 [28OC]
———lending increase, 5886 [17MR]
———policies, 18575 [11JY]
———policy concerning loans to countries practicing racial segregation, 34087 [18NO]
———political tactics relative to votes concerning U.S. participation, 27056 [4OC]
———proposed capital increase, 25080 [21SE]
———proposed increase in U.S. contribution, 5863 [16MR]
———U.S. contribution, 1863 [8FE], 5886 [17MR], 6837, 6839 [23MR], 7314 [24MR], 11858, 11859 [11MY], 18303 [30JN], 19799 [19JY], 20445 [21JY], 20604 [25JY], 20912 [26JY], 22188 [2AU]
———U.S. contribution (H. Con. Res. 130), 13614 [24MY]
———U.S. contribution (H.R. 1907), 3977, 3981 [3MR]
———U.S. contribution (H.R. 2957), 15491 [13JN], 16683 [21JN], 18911 [13JY], 20098, 20099 [20JY], 20180, 20211-20223 [21JY], 20633-20658 [25JY], 20855, 20856, 20860 [26JY], 20911, 20912 [26JY]-20913 [26JY], 21649-21684, 21745 [29JY], 22650-22682 [3AU]
———U.S. contribution (H.R. 2957), debate procedure, 20469 [21JY]
———U.S. contribution (S. 695), technical corrections, 22691 [3AU]
———U.S. participation, 8237 [12AP], 8667 [14AP], 8878 [18AP], 26498 [29SE], 33268 [16NO], 33578 [17NO], 34010, 34011, 34015, 34017, 34023, 34024, 34045-34086 [18NO]
———U.S. participation (H.R. 2957), 34959 [14DE]
IMF-Housing-Eximbank-Multinational development banks: funding proposal legislation, Senate consideration, 30861 [3NO]
International banking activities: regulation (H.R. 2957), 12007 [11MY], 15491 [13JN], 18911 [13JY], 22650-22682 [3AU]
International banking system: proposals to strengthen, 7413 [24MR]
International currency exchange rates: improve policies (H. Res. 194), 12230 [12MY]
International debt: efforts to reduce (H.J. Res. 208), 5886 [17MR]
———increase, 3084 [28FE]
———role of the IMF, 2897 [24FE]
International economy: stablize, 11750 [10MY]
International Financial Stability Act: enact (H.R. 2378), 8679 [14AP], 8878 [18AP]
———introduction (H.R. 2931), 11156 [5MY]
International Monetary Fund: overview, 14382, 14388 [2JN]
———reauthorize U.S. participation, 14271 [1JN]
———U.S. participation, 15102 [9JN]
International Recovery and Financial Stability Act: enact (H.R. 2957), 22650-22682 [3AU], 23363, 23377, 23382 [4AU]
———introduction (H.R. 2930), 11338 [5MY]
Limited Test Ban Treaty: prohibit foreign assistance to nonparticipants (H.R. 3374, 3375), 16694 [21JN]
Loan agreements: financial instability, 8679 [14AP], 8878 [18AP]
Monetary and fiscal policies: implement improved (H.J. Res. 208), 5886 [17MR]
Reform proposals, 14056 [26MY]
Stability: restore (H. Con. Res. 130), 13614 [24MY]
U.S. banks: impact of foreign loans, 7314 [24MR]
U.S. trade: restrict use of IMF funds by members who fail to eliminate import restrictions, 6839 [23MR]
World economic recovery: monetary and fiscal policies to stimulate (H.J. Res. 208), 5886 [17MR]
Remarks in Senate
Bretton Woods Agreement Act: amend (S. 833), 5654 [16MR]
Chile: U.S. policy, 12806 [18MY]
Exchange rates: correct disequilibria, 19875 [20JY]
Export Administration Act: extension and reauthorization (S. 979), 7647 [6AP]
IMF: bailout, 9019 [19AP]
———compensatory financing facility, 31060 [4NO]
———lending increase, 403 [26JA]
———loan policy, 2595 [22FE]
———proposed ``bailout'', 7838 [7AP]
———reauthorize (S. 695), 14710-14732 [7JN], 14911-14972 [8JN], 15162 [9JN]
———reauthorize (S. 695), unanimous-consent agreement, 14716 [7JN]
———U.S. contribution, 26404 [29SE]
———U.S. contributions, 4472 [9MR]
———U.S. funding, 7064 [23MR]
Inter-American and Asian Development Banks: increased U.S. participation (S. 984), 7653 [6AP]
International financial system (S. Con. Res. 43), 14503 [6JN]
International Monetary Fund: increase U.S. quota (S. 695), 13297 [23MY]
———U.S. participation (S. 695), 4077 [7MR]
International monetary system: improving (S. Res. 135), 13892 [25MY]
International Trade and Investment Act: enact (S. 144), 8970 [19AP], 9093-9096, 9110-9159 [20AP], 9409-9457 [21AP], 16166-16170 [16JN]
Supplemental appropriations: funding for IMF programs, 33674-33720 [17NO]
Taiwan's membership in the Asian Development Bank (S. Res. 137), 11704 [10MY]
Williamsburg Summit: improving international monetary system, 13888 [25MY], 14465 [6JN]
———promote (S. Res. 135), 11416 [6MY]
Reports
European Parliament Delegation and U.S. Factfinding Delegation: 21st meeting, 6081 [18MR]
Exchange Rates and Trade Policy, Institute for International Economics, 19881-19885 [20JY]
International Lending Supervision, 14960-14962 [8JN]
Summit of Industrialized Nations, 14927 [8JN]
Reports to constituents
Hamilton, Lee H.: Bretton Woods Institutions, 30572 [2NO]
Pease, Donald J.: Strong Dollar, 11341 [5MY]
Rulings of the Chair
IMF: U.S. contribution (H.R. 2957), 21679 [29JY]
International Recovery and Financial Stability Act: enact (H.R. 2957), 22658, 22663, 22664, 22678, 22679 [3AU]
Statements
Brazilian Debt Problem, Rubem Medina, 26863-26864 [3OC]
Financing Development in the Third World, 15535-15537 [13JN]
Future Evolution of the International Financial System, Senator Bradley, 13895-13898 [25MY]
IMF Contribution, Anthony M. Solomon, 26404-26406 [29SE]
IMF Quota Increase Request, Representative Kaptur, 11999 [11MY]
IMF Reauthorization (S. 695): (sundry excerpts), 14719, 14723 [7JN], 14937, 14959 [8JN]
IMF Replenishment: Environmental Policy Institute, 33697 [17NO]
IMS Monetary Policies: William J. Quirk, 12030 [11MY]
Japanese International Trading Position, Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., 20905 [26JY]
Scapegoating America, David I. Meiselman, 13886 [25MY], 14185 [26MY]
U.S. Contribution to the IMF, Representative Dorgan, 28237 [18OC]
U.S. Participation in the IMF: David Stockman (excerpt), 20895 [26JY]
———former Secretaries of the Treasury, 20866 [26JY]
———Howard Banks, 20653 [25JY]
Studies
International Debt—Crisis and Challenge, Robert E. Weintraub (excerpt), 9020 [19AP]
International Debt—Crisis and Challenge, Robert Weintraub (excerpt), 20655 [25JY]
Tables
Comparison of Boschwitz proposal and April 19 compromise on withholding—International Trade and Investment Act (S. 144), 9416 [21AP]
Congressional budget (S. Con. Res. 27) (sundry), 11793, 11794 [11MY]
Countries known to employ export subsidies, 14723 [7JN], 20909 [26JY]
Current cumulative revenue estimate, 9410 [21AP]
Exports and the U.S. economy, jobs related to manufactured exports and value of agricultural exports, 1981, 20635 [25JY]
IMF reauthorization (S. 695), 14963 [8JN]
Principal third world copper producers and their IMF borrowing, 14919, 14948 [8JN]
Supplemental appropriations conference agreement, 33716 [17NO]
U.S. merchandise trade balance, 1970-82, 9453 [21AP]
Testimonies
IMF Quotas: James D. Davidson (summary), 33694 [17NO]
———Paul C. Roberts, 25715 [26SE]
———(sundry), 20867 [26JY]
Texts of
H. Con. Res. 130, restoration of a stable monetary system, 13614 [24MY]
H. Res. 194, improve policies concerning international currency exchange rates, 12230 [12MY]
H. Res. 249, consideration of H.R. 2957, International Recovery and Financial Stability Act, 20211 [21JY]
H.J. Res. 208, pursue monetary and fiscal policies to stimulate world economic recovery, 5887 [17MR]
H.R. 2931, International Financial Stability Act, 11156 [5MY]
H.R. 3374, 3375, foreign assistance limitation for Limited Test Ban Treaty nonparticipants, 16694 [21JN]
S. 144, International Trade and Investment Act, 9457-9463 [21AP]
S. 695, IMF reauthorization, 4077 [7MR], 14969-14972 [8JN]
S. 979, extension and reauthorization of the Export Administration Act, 7648-7649 [6AP]
S. 984, increased U.S. participation in the Inter-American and Asian Development Banks, 7653 [6AP]
S. Res. 135, improving the international monetary system, 11416 [6MY], 13899 [25MY]