We simply cannot allow the huge increases in the prices of energy and housing to set off double-digit inflation in wages and other prices.
Jimmy Carter: “We simply cannot allow the huge increases in the prices of energy and housing to set off double-digit inflation in wages…”
On the recordSeptember 24, 1979
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August Consumer Price Index White House Statement
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