rediscount rate
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In order to attract capital to London�a necessary preliminary to removing the British restrictions on the export of gold�Mr. Leaf advocates an increase in the Bank of England rediscount rate from 4 to 5%.
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Most hateful, therefore, is the present high rediscount rate.
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To boost the rediscount rate now would cost the Treasury millions in added interest.
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But without direct controls, it had to rely on an indirect method: it hiked the rediscount rate.
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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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