monetary policy

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

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monetary policy

Markets have had a mixed reaction to the moves, with long-term US bond yields touching multi-decade highs as investors digest having less data on how the Fed will make monetary policy.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

Warsh said that doing so "would allow more information to accumulate between meetings than under current practice and provide policymakers and the staff more time to consider strategic monetary policy issues," the minutes said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

The “Anything But Bonds” trope will only end, Hartnett contends, if Warsh signals hawkish at the Jackson Hole symposium Aug. 28, and both the Fed and Bank of Japan tighten monetary policy in September.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

It next meets in September on monetary policy, and it will be able to add August’s price data to what it has learned in July.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 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