Under these conditions, monetary contraction (or slowing expansion) would have a recessionary (or a less stimulative) impact on other economies.

Likewise, he argued that it was an oversupply of money that caused inflation.

In modern terms, the Romans faced a monetary squeeze.

That led to a long period of double digit growth in money supply.

The second has led directly to an increase in the money supply and to price inflation.

Financial innovation has weakened the link between money growth and inflation, for example.

The worry is that, at least in some cases, the IMF will go back to its old failed recipes fiscal and monetary contraction, which would only increase global inequities.

He rightly believed that reducing the money supply would have been too blunt an instrument to use.

Relatively slow growth in the money supply also led to deflation, worsening the problems of bad debts.

China s intensive economic monetization is a key factor driving its money supply growth.

Given the high rate of growth in China s money supply, there could be considerable pressures for the yuan to actually depreciate, because a rate of monetary growth that exceeds the growth rate of economic activity tends to cause a currency s exchange rate to fall.

Central banks should give the growth of (broad) money supply more prominence in their monetary policy strategies.

With flexible exchange rates, however, monetary policy contraction in a major economy would stimulate other economies in the short run, while monetary expansion would damage their performance.

The bulk of the CFA franc money supply comes from trade between France and its African allies. As a result, the franc zone's basic features have always been scarce money and high interest rates.

As guardians of the nation s money supply and setters of short term interest rates, central bankers have always played a critical role.

Adding up the impact of the PBC s sterilization efforts, roughly one quarter of China s total monetary base is illiquid.

The bulk of the CFA franc money supply comes from trade between France and its African allies.

Consequently, maintaining high GDP growth rates requires an ever increasing volume of credit and a continuously growing money supply.

Monetarists insist that economies experience inflation when money supply growth persistently exceeds output growth.

But the most recent RRR increases serve mainly to sterilize the passive money supply caused by the increase in foreign exchange reserves.

In fact, the Fed and other advanced country central banks should not be blamed for the negative effects of monetary expansion, either.

But rapid growth in foreign exchange reserves means an increase in the domestic money supply, because the PBC issues RMB6.64 (down 3 since June) for every dollar it receives. That means that money supply increase by nearly RMB700 billion in September.

Relative to today's levels of spending on official development assistance and global public goods, however, the amounts are enormous.

During the same period, a commonly used measure of monetary growth, M2, increased by only 6.8 .

The outcome of early November s US mid term elections has effectively denied the Obama administration the option of fiscal expansion.

That precipitation was the abundant growth in money supply in the US, the United Kingdom, and the larger emerging economies.

Relative to global income some 40 trillion the magnitude of monetary growth would be minuscule.

For starters, the lag time between changes in the money supply and price movements is long, variable, and unpredictable.

The latter problem has only recently begun to surface in debates about exit strategies from sharply increased levels of public debt and money supply.

(e) Meeting the most essential and pressing items of current expenditure in July and August without resorting to currency issuance.

Second, controlling asset bubbles requires control not only of the money supply, but also of the availability of credit.

Anticipation of aggressive monetary expansion has sharply weakened the yen, which has fallen by almost 20 against the dollar in just over four months.

The problem is that the relationship between the money supply (which ultimately determines the value of money) and prices is an unstable one.

Furthermore, economists now understand inflation as a rise in consumer prices, not as a decline in the value of money resulting from an excessive increase in the money supply.

Stringent measures were implemented in the early 1990 s to reduce the money supply and stop over investment, thereby heading off hyperinflation.

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The US Federal Reserve Board has pumped out trillions of dollars of reserves, but never have so many reserves produced so little monetary growth.

The effectiveness of monetary expansion could be enhanced in advanced countries by reducing the leakages generated by the carry trade and other short term capital outflows.

(To be sure, in the medium or long run, monetary expansion can facilitate increased domestic production and trade, thereby generating positive spillover effects.)

This should be aimed at restraining excessive credit growth, which the monetary growth that follows currency intervention would otherwise cause.

Freedom in money creation or in interest rate policy could mean economic disaster as, indeed, it did in many ex colonies following independence.

Wherever too much money growth occurs, the consequences for price stability, financial stability, and even economic stability will be severe, as the current crisis shows.

When the first and second arrows lift actual growth above potential growth, monetary expansion will no longer be able to produce substantial GDP or employment gains.

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