The Bank of England is continuing to buy up billions of government bonds as part of its policy of helping the commercial lenders through increasing the amount of money in circulation, a policy known as quantitative easing.

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Critics might fret that the recent slowdown in the growth in Japan's monetary base (banks' reserves at the central bank plus notes and coins in circulation) suggests that the Bank of Japan has tightened policy.

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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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Our earlier use of this policy approach had little effect on the amount of currency in circulation or on other broad measures of the money supply, such as bank deposits.

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This policy, a big part of which was reducing the number of guns in circulation, helped to lower gun-murders of under-24-year-olds from 51 in 1990 to only 16 last year.

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The time it took for ambulances to arrive on the scene was similar for men and women, according to researchers at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, who published the study in the journal, Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.

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