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-5- have led to rationing, black marketing, total Federal bureaucratic domination of the economy, and it would never get at the real causes of inflation. That left a fourth choice, to restrain the economy moderately and steadily, so that prices would slow their rise without too great a hardship on labor and business. That is the road of responsibility, and that is the road we chose. Because we are concerned with both prices and jobs, we have put the brakes on inflation carefully and steadily. This did not mean that inflation could end without some slowdown in the economy. But we were willing to make a trade -- to sacrifice speed in ending inflation in order to keep the economic slowdown moderate. This, then, was and is our basic policy: to reduce inflationary pressures steadily, in a way that would avert the kind of hardship that usually follows inflation.

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