Sentences with phrase «monetary dollar holdings»

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Canadians should not give up their monetary policy to buy and hold US dollars.

With banks holding fractional reserves of Federal Reserve dollars (notes and deposit claims on the books of the Fed, whose sum is called «the monetary base»), when the Fed increases the quantity of Federal Reserve dollars by $ 1 billion, the banking system ordinarily creates a multiple amount of deposit dollars.

Think of it this way, if you had a dollar and there were only ten dollars in circulation, you'd be holding 10 % of the world's monetary supply.

The brutal fact was that the US was dollar - rich, holding all the cards, and at Bretton Woods forced through agreements that effectively ended British monetary dominance and broke the trade tariffs and advantages of the Empire.

Liquidity preference is simply the amount of monetary base that people are willing to hold, per dollar of nominal GDP.

As I noted this past January in Sixteen Cents: Pushing the Unstable Limits of Monetary Policy, a collapse in short - term yields to nearly zero is a predictable outcome of QE2, based on the very robust historical relationship between short - term interest rates and the amount of cash and bank reserves (monetary base) that people are willing to hold per dollar of nominal GDP:

Earlier in the Day: Economic data released through the Asian session this morning was limited to China's April service sector PMI figures, with the RBA also releasing its monetary policy meeting minutes from Tuesday interest rate decision.For the Aussie Dollar, while the RBA's hold had been widely anticipated, the tone of

Make no mistake — every share of stock, every bond certificate, every dollar of monetary base that has been created is being held by someone, and will continue to be held by someone until each of those securities is retired.

The answer could be that while central bank interventions increased the monetary base, or M0 money supply, those dollars were held in reserve by the banking system.