monetary policy

Cultural  

1. An attempt to achieve broad economic goals by the regulation of the supply of money. (Compare fiscal policy.)

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Example Sentences

The Bank of England’s monetary policy decision on Thursday is the U.K.’s main event.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

A related consideration is how monetary policy should interact with fiscal policy in an era of a structurally large federal deficit.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

Taiwan’s central bank will hold its June-quarter monetary policy meeting on Thursday, the first since May inflation rose above the 2% threshold – a level not breached in a year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

Any move higher in yields would do the trick, especially as the market grapples with uncertainty about the way new Fed chair Kevin Warsh will go about monetary policy.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

One kind of monetary policy, which involves the central bank buying private assets, is chunked as quantitative easing.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker