| Description | Includes: notes of meetings between the Bank, Chancellor and Treasury (HMT) officials on monetary policy; correspondence between Nigel Lawson and Robin Leigh-Pemberton (Governor) and George Blunden (Deputy Governor), on monetary issues; interpretations of monetary conditions; notes on monetary prospects; interest rates; note for the Governor's markets meeting with the Chancellor on 15 January 1988; paper concerning model for a collateralised sterling final payments system; handwritten paper on the objectives of monetary policy; Treasury paper on monetary and exchange rate issues; broad money; note on Books held on 11 Feb 1988; Treasury note on provisional money figures; drafts of the monetary policy section of the medium term financial strategy (MTFS) sent to the Bank for comment; Treasury note on 1988-1989 M0 target range and factors underlying the M0 forecast; copy of a statement of the Group of seven (G7) concerning on their economic policies and prospects and the Louvre Accord; copy of a letter from the Governor to the Marquess of Douro dated March 1988, in response to his letter concerning interest rates and capital adequacy ratios; correspondence between the Governor and Terence Smith, Financial director of Yorkshire Chemicals, on an article by Anthony Thomas on exchange rate policy; note for the Governor's meeting with the Prime Minister on monetary strategy on 15 March 1988; Treasury paper on exchange rate policy; Treasury note to the Chancellor for his meeting with the Prime Minister on 25 March 1988; notes for the Governor's Treasury Select Committee appearance and a possible opening statement; draft article on liquidity and broad money for the Treasury Economic Progress Report; Bank note on the exchange rate and monetary conditions; note for the Governor on monetary policy, monetary conditions and monetary aggregates; note for the Governor's meeting with the Chancellor 8 April 1988. |