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Upcoming: hearings by the House Domestic Monetary Policy Subcommittee discount window lending practices by the Fed.
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And most French discount the idea that American policy abroad, the Balkans included, is fired by ideals.
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Getting a discount is also a sort of insurance policy against ending up with badly made or fake goods from Chinese shops.
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Does the cut in the discount rate mean the Fed has already loosened policy?
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That no-tax policy, along with free or discount shipping and good service, helped grow the company into a behemoth.
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That uncertainty discount notwithstanding, it seems that Thaksin's economic policy itself is not fundamentally at stake in the country's political-ethical crossfire.
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In fact, the Fed was established as a result of the Panic of 1907 and the discount mechanism and rate were the only tools of monetary policy given to the Fed in the Federal Reserve Act.
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Similarly, if the chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC) - the organization responsible for producing the National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs) that are supposed to reflect the best insights of the intelligence community as a whole and that usually guide U.S. government security decision-making - has a well-established and anti-American policy agenda, he will likely try to discount or exclude insights from NIEs that conflict with his biases.
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How many policy analysts today would phase out deposit insurance, the discount window, or the TBTF doctrine?
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As the storm gathered during 2008, the Fed aggressively eased monetary policy by using such open market operations (supplemented by discount rate reductions) to drive short-term interest rates to near-zero levels.
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The big exceptions are Taiwan, where the discount rate is less than 1.9%, and Singapore, which carries out monetary policy by setting a path for the exchange rate, not the interest rate.
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