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 five-member board of governors voted unanimously to leave the overnight interest-rate target at 7.0% in their first monetary policy meeting of the year.

From The Wall Street Journal

Especially so in monetary policy.

From The Wall Street Journal

The decision was again the result of a tight vote, with four of the Monetary Policy Committee’s nine members seeking to cut the key rate to 3.5%, which would have been its lowest level in four years.

From The Wall Street Journal

"If the euro appreciates further and further, at some stage this might create of course a certain necessity to react in terms of monetary policy," Kocher, who sits on the ECB's rate-setting Governing Council, told The Financial Times.

From Barron's

She will avoid "indicating a clear direction for monetary policy if the euro reaches a certain exchange rate", preferring instead to "remain neutral", he added.

From Barron's