He was lucky because he got the job without ever being on a ballot outside of Michigan’s 5th Congressional District. He was unlucky because the country was experiencing the worst inflation since 1947.
Inflation that August would hit 10.9 percent, then rise to 11.9 percent in September, with huge increases in food and energy prices. Federal spending on the Vietnam War and Great Society programs had ballooned, and the Bretton Woods monetary system, which sought to maintain global currency values, had collapsed. To his credit, Ford did not shy away from talking about inflation. “My conclusions are very simply stated,” he said in an address to Congress that October. “We must whip inflation right now.”
Ford’s policy prescriptions in that speech were a mixed bag. The better ideas included deregulation of natural gas supplies, removal of acreage limits on a few agricultural products, and, most important, a rejection of price controls and rationing. “Peacetime controls actually, we know from recent experience, create shortages, hamper production, stifle growth, and limit jobs,” Ford said, adding that they would “cause the fixer and the black marketeer to flourish while decent citizens face empty shelves and stand in long waiting lines.”
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