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PDF 82 Feb 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Chancellor's PS letter to No.10 (“Interest Rates”) [possible further rate cut - but MT thinks too soon in view of money supply figures] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Monetary Policy Meeting”) [MT endorses Gordon Richardson’s correction to record about introduction of indexed gilts] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Chancellor's PS letter to No.10 (briefing on markets since last week) ["the markets have had to digest a good deal of bad news, much of it of US origin"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 11 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: MT letter to Gordon Richardson (thanking for dinner at the Bank last night) [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Chancellor's PS letter to No.10 (financial markets situation and interest rates) [Bank proposes, Chancellor accepts, immediate half point cut] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 28 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Interest Rates and Money Supply”) [watching closely] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“The Gilt Market and the Budget”) [Bank proved wrong in its claim indexed gilts would hit price for conventional gilts; interest rate cut imminent] classified 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Chancellor’s PS letter to No.10 (“Bullion Gold Sovereigns and Half Sovereigns”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 May 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters minute to No.10 (“Interest Rates”) [urges half point reduction; Bank against, Treasury less so] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Chancellor's PS letter to No.10 (assesses financial markets and prospects for interest rates) ["no move on interest rates can be countenanced while the Falklands dispute continues"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Jun 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Interest Rates”) [further half point cut agreed between Treasury & Bank] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Jun 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Chancellor's PS letter to No.10 (recent developments on financial markets) [rates eased down only after Falklands landing; scope for half percent more] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Jun 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Funding and the Monetary Aggregates”) [new strategy agreed yesterday - not to overfund; "a great step forward"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Jul 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Interest Rates”) ['imperative' to continue reducing rates; tightness of money, high effective exchange rate] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Funding and Interest Rates”) [half point cut soon, resist temptation to overfund] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Jul 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Funding”) [new taps, national saving certificates] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Jul 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walter Goldsmith letter to MT (The Institute of Directors’s press release on Government’s reflation policy) [business against reflation] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Aug 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (Monetary policy: Current situation and future prospects) [aim to "maintain steady downward momentum of … rates"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Sep 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Interest Rates and Monetary Policy”) [look for further rate cuts when opportunity offers] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Oct 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Interest Rates”) [room for further rate cut of half or one percent, though it will reinforce perceptions that HMG has exchange rate target] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Oct 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Conversion of the National Debt”) [tentative step towards] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Oct 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Funding and Conversion”) [Bank's successful conversion operations] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Oct 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Funding and Interest Rates”) [conversion success; be careful about reducing rates] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Oct 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Monetary Aggregates: Provisional Figures”) [October figures high but consistent with policy] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Monetary Policy and Interest Rates”) [McMahon & Wass want large & quick cut] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters minute to No.10 (“Exchange Rate and the Markets”) [market believes government has exchange rate target] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Jan 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer telegram to MT (“The Exchange Rate and Interest Rates”) [sterling falling sharply, Barclays forcing rise in rates] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Jan 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Walter Salomon’s Views on Sterling”) [urges repeal of Exchange Control Act 1947 for fear of return to controls] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Jan 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Chancellor's briefing for Lord President & other colleagues (“Exchange Rate and Interest Rates: Guidance for Public Presentation”) [less said directly the better, concentrate on strong underlying financial position] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Jan 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Monetary Policy and Interest Rates”) ["a risk of undue monetary stringency in the coming months"; look for ways to bring rates down] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Monetary Policy and Interest Rates”) [market expecting some reduction in interest rates in weeks ahead] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (current weakness of sterling) [let the exchange rate take the strain in run-up to election] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Apr 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Chancellor's PS letter to No.10 (developments today in the money markets) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Apr 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Funding”) [Bank plan to increase funding in coming months by introducing "index link to convertible stock"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Apr 25 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Monitoring Report: Public Trade Sector”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Apr 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury paper for No.10 (“Sterling and the Election Approach”) ["political" risks between now & election, plus options if downward pressure develops] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Apr 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Interest Rates”) [market pressure for a reduction; yield reluctantly] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Apr 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters briefing for MT (“Visit of Karl Brunner: 27 April 1983”) [banks and debts, investment markets, US monetary policy] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 May 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Money, Interest Rates and Funding”) [monetary policy "fairly firm" as indicated by monetary base & exchange rate] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 May 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Chancellor's PS letter to No.10 (note on market conditions) [“currently very quiet, with a reluctance to take out new positions ahead of the Election”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 May 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters minute to No.10 (“Funding and Interest Rates”) [review of situation] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Jun 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 (exchange rate and prospects for interest rates) [Chancellor recommends possible half percent cut immediately after election] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Jun 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Interest Rates”) [half percent cut on Tuesday, but will not prevent eventual rise in mortgage rates] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Jul 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Monetary Policy”) [monetary conditions “moderately lax”; possible increase in interest rates in next few weeks] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Jul 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“National Savings”) [MT: “The First Lord is not INFORMED about increases in interest rates but ASKED”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Jul 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“National Savings: Press Comment”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Sep 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“National Savings - Deposit Bond”) [proposal] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Andrew Turnbull message to MT (public spending and borrowing: PSBR and CGBR figures) [declassified 2013]
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