How to Use the money supply in a Sentence

the money supply

noun
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  • The banks have less money to spend, and the money supply shrinks.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2012
  • Since March 2022, the money supply has been falling like a stone.
    — John Greenwood, National Review, 13 Dec. 2023
  • As a result, the money supply ballooned by record amounts.
    — Richard Werner, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2023
  • To do so, the primary Fed tool is reducing the money supply.
    — John S. Tobey, Forbes, 15 July 2023
  • Then, between last July and this May, the money supply dropped nearly 5%.
    — Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 13 July 2023
  • The sharp reversal and squeeze in the money supply has had dramatic consequences.
    — Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 4 May 2023
  • And the central bank is not watching the money supply, the force that drives all economic activity, but which operates with a lag.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 16 June 2023
  • And so with each home equity loan, car loan, and mortgage, banks add incrementally to the money supply.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2012
  • The absence of a central bank pulling the levers and making the decisions over the money supply allows the exchanges to remain outside the mainstream financial markets.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Hanke claims that the Fed caused the inflationary burst by ignoring the money supply, while producing it in excess.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 30 May 2023
  • By early this year, the country’s reserves were depleted, the money supply had increased by 40 percent in two years, and inflation was rampant.
    — Shantayanan Devarajan, Foreign Affairs, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Shrinking the money supply squeezes the financial system and pushes interest rates up.
    — John S. Tobey, Forbes, 15 July 2023
  • The Federal Reserve has shoved interest rates higher by tightening the money supply in a quest to curb inflation.
    — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Since then, to keep inflation in check, the Fed tightened the money supply effectively raising interest rates.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Carter knew full well that Volcker planned to induce a recession by tightening the money supply, experts argue.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Because the money supply is simply too complex for humans to reliably manage.
    — Korok Ray, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The major central banks across the globe were boosting the money supply dramatically through a coordinated programme of QE.
    — Richard Werner, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2023
  • By rejecting the quantity theory of money and the money supply, Powell and the Fed have given us whiplash: first an unprecedented explosion in M2 and now a contraction that, to date, is already the third largest in the Fed’s history.
    — John Greenwood, National Review, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The detail is astonishing and perhaps telling — even if Burns largely drains it of emotional force, moving briskly on, in the next section, to Friedman’s congressional testimony about the money supply.
    — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
  • In Bernanke’s retelling, Friedman’s once outré argument, that the Fed should have aggressively expanded the money supply when people pulled money from banks in 1929, was now practically common sense.
    — Krithika Varagur, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024
  • To put those numbers into context, based on the quantity theory of money, the rate of growth of the money supply that is consistent with the Federal Reserve’s hitting its 2 percent inflation target is 5–6 percent per year.
    — Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 22 Mar. 2023
  • For example, adhering to a strict gold standard might keep inflation low and steady during normal times, but during a depression there is no way to increase the money supply to offset rising unemployment.
    — James Broughel, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • That meant, for example, that if the Federal Reserve increased the growth rate of the money supply to get a temporary reduction in unemployment, the policy would work only if the actual growth rate was bigger than what people expected.
    — David R. Henderson, wsj.com, 15 May 2023
  • Bitcoin offers an alternative to discretionary central bank management, with its predictable and unchangeable issuance of new money, removing humans from the money supply decision.
    — Korok Ray, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023

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