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1985 Dec 2 - 1986 Sep 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1707
Economic policy (Domestic monetary policy) (Part 15)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 448
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86 Sep 29 Mo Major Monetary Policy: Griffiths minute to MT (“Interest Rate Policy: Hysteria and Fundamentals”) [let exchange rate fall and keep intervention to absolute minimum] [declassified 2014]
86 Sep 29 Mo Major Monetary Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Oil Prices - Short-Term Outlook”) [guesses that prices will move up to $20 in 2-3 months] [declassified 2014]
86 Sep 29 Mo Major Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Middleton, Cassell, Blunden, George; afterwards MT-Lawson phone call) ["The Markets" - MT: "much of the present hysteria in the markets had been whipped up by the media"] [declassified 2014]
86 Sep 30 Tu Major Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Economic Secretary, Middleton, Deputy Governor, Eddie George) ["The Markets" - intervention to continue but at "absolute minumum"] [declassified 2014]