In October's MPC meeting, two members dissented, with one wanting to tighten the money supply via a rate rise, while another wanted the Bank to loosen money by restarting quantitative easing.
Chad's Doba oil reserves are thought to contain 25 years' worth of supply at an output rate of 225, 000 barrels a day.
The important thing is doing what has to be done without sharp increases or decreases in the money supply or its growth rate.
As with any excise tax, the amount of revenue a weed tax could generate is a function of four big things: The tax rate, supply, demand, and price.
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Expanding supply at the same rate will be difficult, because the amount of arable land under cultivation is growing by only a fraction of a percentage point each year.
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We are globally destroying the supply of equities at a rate of 5% a year.
That would spike up the top marginal tax rate, demolishing supply-side tax principles that Republican administrations have purportedly followed for 26 years.
Nationwide, the inventory of unsold homes was 3.33 million at the end of October 2011, an eight-month supply at the current sales rate.
The quantity theory of money holds that the money supply, multiplied by the rate at which it circulates (called velocity), equals nominal income.
There was no significant change in the money supply, the Fed Funds rate or any other of the traditional parameters that track Fed policy.
Supply-chain technology also will march in the direction of standards and ubiquity. (Think of personal computers.) At that point, decisive advantage will go to companies that use their supply chains to boost their rate of hit products.
If the supply of dollars goes up a lot (as it is) then to keep the exchange rate linked emerging markets must increase the supply of their currency as well.
Nor were other indicators such as money-supply growth or wages pointing to rate cuts.
ECB's strict monetarists probably disagree, arguing that the faster rate of money-supply growth signals higher inflation ahead.
Some people focus on the expansion of bank credit, some focus on what happens to interest rates, and some focus on the growth rate of the money supply.
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The gold standard had many flaws, but the chief virtue of fixing the exchange rate and constraining the supply of credit was to stop politicians succumbing to the inevitable pressure to respond to crises by debauching the currency, resulting in long-term harm to the livelihoods and living standards of their citizens.
The group also projects that reform could, among other things, lower the unemployment rate and increase the labor supply by reducing disability and absenteeism.
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The bottom line is that a massive increase in the supply of debt coupled with a rising rate of inflation will always place upward pressure on interest rates.
Mind you, this with a money supply already growing at a year over year rate of 10.5%.
Most central bankers view monetary policy as influencing the rate of growth of the money supply to achieve their objectives.
An ideal one would keep the same rate regardless of variation in power supply, temperature, air pressure, magnetic fields, or any other disturbing influences.
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The number of bitcoin files in existence is limited, and while new bitcoins come into existence every day, the rate of expansion in the bitcoin supply is known to all users.
If not, and those banks decide to instead sit on those reserves, or at least the greater part of them, we will likely see a precipitous fall in the rate of growth in the money supply, maybe even an actual contraction.
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To influence demand, the central banks move a short-term interest rate up or down by adjusting the supply of bank reserves.
The result has been an ever widening spread between the rate of inflation in the Euro money supply versus the U.S. money supply in favor of the U.S. money supply.
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Is it structured to fend off the asset-eroding potential of triggers such as so-called Black Swan events, Black Monday-level market implosions, interest and inflation rate swings, war or an oil supply disruption?
These may include having a low metabolic rate in ecosystems where energy is in short supply.
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Even at the historically low rate, demand for the bonds greatly outstripped supply.
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Euro TMS, which represents our preferred Austrian inspired money supply aggregate, posted a year-over-year rate of growth of 6.3% in December.
TMS2, which represents our broadest and preferred US money supply aggregate, posted a year-over-year rate of growth of 9.6% in January.
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