His policy of expanding "power money"--cash in circulation plus bank reserves--will feed inflation, which is currently at 5.2%.

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Does this look like cash in circulation is not changing?

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And if central bankers sought to control money, however defined, by targeting the monetary base cash in circulation and commercial-bank reserves held with the central bank they lost control of the short-term interest rate, which might move erratically and damage the economy.

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Mr. SWETMAN: Our first mission was to get cash back in circulation.

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When investigators caught him, he was living among mountains of money so large and unruly that the bills had begun to molder. (Storing cash is one of the most vexing challenges confronting corrupt Chinese officials, because the largest bill in circulation is a hundred-yuan note, worth about fifteen dollars.) He was convicted and received a death sentence that was suspended and later reduced to sixteen years.

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