rediscount rate
Americannoun
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It can restrict credit only by increasing loan costs through boosts in the rediscount rate and reserves of member banks and sales of Government securities.
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Last year he bitterly attacked the Federal Reserve system for its failure to make a more substantial raise in the rediscount rate.
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Directors of the New York Federal Reserve Bank held a lengthy and private meeting, after which, however, no change was announced in the rediscount rate.
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Ordinarily the Fed raises the rediscount rate to prevent "riding the rate," i.e., a member bank borrowing from the Fed to have more funds for lending at a higher rate.
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For the seventh time since the stockmarket crash of October 1929, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York last week lowered its rediscount rate.
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