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

Tighter monetary policy was also a factor around the deflating of the dot-com bubble, Perkins notes.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026

“Those have been the times over the past eight years when monetary policy, in our view, has been least successful,” Romer said.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

Warsh’s most recent predecessors tapped one or two senior policy advisers upon taking office, but those aides were drawn from the ranks of current or former Fed staff with experience in monetary policy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

Monetary policy under Powell was more successful when it was driven by more conventional frameworks that stressed a more limited view of what monetary policy can accomplish, Romer said.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 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