The Week

■ Gold Medalist, Bumper Sticker Event: vote liberal: GET RID OF TAKE-HOME PAY!

■ Inflation is raging near 20 per cent, a rate four times as great as under President Ford. The prime rate is approaching the records set in 1929. The stock market, corrected for inflation, is limping along at mid-Depression levels. The bond market is a shambles. The housing market is in ruins. The auto industry is sagging. Steel is begging for protection. Commodities are in a tailspin. The U.S. trade deficit last month, over $5 billion, was an all-time record. With all this hideous economic news, you’ll no doubt be cheered to hear that at least one major U.S. concern reported a fat 15.2 per cent increase in retained earnings last year—the IRS.

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Presidential Election

■ Gold Medalist, Bumper Sticker Event: vote liberal: GET RID OF TAKE-HOME PAY!

■ Inflation is raging near 20 per cent, a rate four times as great as under President Ford. The prime rate is approaching the records set in 1929. The stock market, corrected for inflation, is limping along at mid-Depression levels. The bond market is a shambles. The housing market is in ruins. The auto industry is sagging. Steel is begging for protection. Commodities are in a tailspin. The U.S. trade deficit last month, over $5 billion, was an all-time record. With all this hideous economic news, you’ll no doubt be cheered to hear that at least one major U.S. concern reported a fat 15.2 per cent increase in retained earnings last year—the IRS.