It could then expand its balance-sheet indefinitely without driving the fed funds rate to zero; a bank will not lend out excess reserves at 0.25% if it can earn 1.75% at the Fed.

这可以无限制扩大它的资产负债表，而不会使联邦基金利率降到0。 银行如果可以从联储那里得到1.75%的利息，就不会以0.25%的利率贷出多余的款项。

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When the PBoC sells dollars from its reserves to support the exchange rate, the central bank balance sheet shrinks and China's money supply contracts.

当中国央行抛售其储备的美元以支撑人民币汇率时，央行的资产负债表缩水，中国的货币供应量也出现收缩。

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The foreign-exchange reserves, then, represent no more than the asset side of a balance sheet, against which the central bank holds liabilities.

因此，外汇储备不过是兑成了外币的央行负债而已。

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The accepted practice in bank accounting is to set up significant loan-loss reserves only when the commitment is availed of and the arrangement becomes an on-balance-sheet loan.

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The privately owned gold held in Turkish commercial banks has shown up on the balance sheet for the central bank, resulting in news reports of inflated official-sector reserves in the country, the consultancy said.

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