rediscount rate
Americannoun
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The Board will fix their rediscount rate, determine whether they shall buy or sell Government securities, fix how much credit they may extend to their member banks.
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Thus it may be that the recent advance of the New York Reserve rediscount rate will mark a "turn" in business from expansion to contraction.
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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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The classical law of rediscount banking is to keep the rediscount rate above the open market rate, in order slightly to penalize rather than subsidize the bank applying for the rediscount.
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By lowering the rediscount rate the Board can indirectly induce the reverse process.
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