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Eisenhower: However, any debt management device which would seek to interfere with the natural interaction of the competitive forces…

On the recordJune 7, 1959
However, any debt management device which would seek to interfere with the natural interaction of the competitive forces of our free economy and produce unnatural reductions in interest rates would not only breach the fundamental principles of the free market, but under current conditions could be drastically inflationary.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Special Message to the Congress on the Management of the Public Debt.

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