monetary base
noun[U]
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all thecashin aneconomy,includingallpapermoneyandcoins:
Centralbankshaverespondedtomarketturbulencebyexpandingthemonetarybase.
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This rather sudden contraction of themonetarybaseafter three currency and rampant speculation based on debt led to the panic of 1819.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.See the chart in this article showing that the actual workingmonetarybasehas appreciated much more normally than the traditional monetary base since 2008.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Themonetarybaseand monetary policy are typically controlled by the same national institution, usually either the finance ministry or the central bank.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Let themonetarybasebe normalized to unity.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Other monetary policy tools to expand the money supply include decreasing interest rates by fiat; increasing themonetarybase; and decreasing reserve requirements.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.There are several monetary policy tools available to achieve these ends: increasing interest rates by fiat; reducing themonetarybase; and increasing reserve requirements.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These institutions change themonetarybasethrough open market transactions: the buying and selling of government bonds.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Additionally, the velocity of themonetarybaseis interest rate sensitive, the highest velocity being at the highest interest rates.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is the number of dollars of money supply that can be created for every dollar ofmonetarybase.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The adjustedmonetarybasehas increased from approximately 400 billion dollars in 1994, to 800 billion in 2005, and over 3000 billion in 2013.
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