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1989 Sep 5 - 1990 Apr 23
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2943
Economic Policy (Domestic monetary policy) (Part 21)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 441
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89 Sep 13 We Major Economic Policy: Lawson PS minute to Paul Gray ("Article by Tim Congdon") [inflation and domestic demand] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Oct 2 Mo Major Economic Policy: Lawson PS minute to Paul Gray ("Balancing Items") [overseas accounts of major countries] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Oct 3 Tu Major Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [German interest rates; foreign exchange markets; UK exchange rates] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Oct 4 We Major Economic Policy: Alan Walters minute to MT ("Interest Rates and Recession") [caught out by market expections of a Pavlovian reaction to the Dmark rate ... "a Greek tragedy"] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Oct 6 Fr Major Economic Policy: Lawson PS minute to Paul Gray ("Credit Controls in UK and Other Countries") [most industrial countries rely on interest rates as main instrument of monetary policy] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Oct 11 We Major Economic Policy: Alan Walters minute to MT ("Interest Rates and Recession") [interest rates at 15 percent would lead to sharp recession] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Oct 13 Fr Major Economic Policy: Paul Gray note to MT (Economist article) [economy in trouble] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Oct 16 Mo Major Economic Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Financial Markets: 1800 Hours Our Time") [latest position] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Oct 16 Mo Major Economic Policy: Charles Powell telegram to Paul Gray (markets) [MT "very anxious" for report of stock market reaction following opening of Wall Street] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Oct 16 Mo Major Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [financial markets; DM revaluation; ERM] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Oct 17 Tu Major Economic Policy: Paul Gray minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Market Report: 17 October, 1530 Our Time") [worries in the markets] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Oct 24 Tu Major Economic Policy: Dominic Morris minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Market Reaction to Trade Figures") [pound holding] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Oct 31 Tu Minor Economic Policy: Michael Scholar minute to Major PS ("An Independent Bank of England: Mr Lawson's Speech on 31 October") [line to take] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Nov 1 We Major Economic Policy: Paul Gray minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Today's Economic Debate") [fun-poking over Walters] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Nov 1 We Major Economic Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Resignation of Mr Lawson") [market reaction seeing resignation as a boon] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Nov 13 Mo Major Economic Policy: John Major minute to MT ("Balance of Payments Figures for 1989 Q3") [invisibles surplus better than feared] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Dec 12 Tu Major Economic Policy: Central Statistical Office paper ("Balance of Payments Figures: Third Quarter 1989") [disappointing invisibles surplus] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Dec 12 Tu Major Economic Policy: Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("Monetary Conditions") [no reason for pressing higher interest rates] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Dec 18 Mo Major Economic Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Sir Alan Walters' Book") [flexible versus fixed exchange rates] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Dec 21 Th Major Economic Policy: David Waddington minute to Geoffrey Howe ("1. Paper on the Introduction of a Major Lottery or Lotteries. 2. 'Skill-Ball' Competition") [deferring a firm decision on allowing major lotteries] [declassified Dec 2016]