The first fractional reserve lenders (typically the goldsmiths of bygone days) were those who issued receipts for storage of gold on behalf of others in the community, and who made a side business of lending.
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Kitts and Nevis, which has approved now the first Biosphere Reserve in English-speaking Region.
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The Bureau of Economic Analysis of the Commerce Department compiles the first and the Federal Reserve Board the second.
In 1992, the year First Reserve launched its first buyout fund, Macaulay found himself in a Texas courtroom over one of his investments.
About 300 people have paid at least the majority of the fee to reserve the first flights, and about 80, 000 others have registered interest, said Stephen Attenborough, Virgin Galactic's commercial director.
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This was the first time that the PBOC had cut bank reserve levels in three years, the first signal that monetary policy in China is changing.
The first woman in the Army Reserve to be promoted to the general officer rank.
Locke will stick around, at the behest of First Reserve Chairman and Chief Executive William Macaulay.
Those four are all expected to be fit by the time the serious action starts in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, although Chris Tremlett has travelled with the squad as first reserve.
The dollar auctions on Wednesday were the ECB's first since joining the Federal Reserve and other major central banks on Nov. 30 to provide cheap, emergency U.S. dollar loans to banks in Europe and elsewhere, in a coordinated effort to ease strains in the global financial system stemming from the European debt crisis.
It builds on the strong first step taken by the Federal Reserve toward improving disclosures and ending unfair practices.
Once the work is completed, the heritage trust hopes to create a new 971 square metre exhibition space, allowing the museum to display some of the large industrial objects in its reserve collections for the first time.
And news leaked out Friday that Tim Geithner, who is the president of the New York Federal Reserve, will be the first official member of the incoming administration's Cabinet.
"It certainly is a first in the Philadelphia Reserve Bank's history, " Welch said.
It is only three months since the fortuitous discovery of a lost Shakespeare First Folio in the French Biosphere Reserve of Saint Omer.
The bulls will counter that, at the first sign of serious weakness, the Federal Reserve would engineer a collapse in mortgage-borrowing costs.
First, the reserve-currency status of the dollar helped to create global imbalances.
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This is the first time that the PBOC has cut bank reserve levels in three years, signaling a decisive shift in monetary policy.
They reserve the first and biggest bites for large state-owned enterprises.
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First, the Federal Reserve could drain bank reserves and reduce the excess liquidity at other institutions by arranging large-scale reverse repurchase agreements with financial market participants, including banks, government-sponsored enterprises and other institutions.
Not to be confused with either the Strategic Petroleum Reserve or the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), the desolate 23 million acre NPRA region was first established as an oil reserve for the U.S. Navy in 1923.
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In the first policy decision since unleashing QE3, the Federal Reserve decided to stay its course.
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Data for the first couple of weeks of September indicate reserve accumulation is on the pick-up after a substantial slowdown in August.
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For months, government officials have warned investors that the economy is headed for a harsh first half of 2008 as the Federal Reserve has slashed interest rates to encourage economic growth.
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When Ben Bernanke hosts the first ever press conference by a Federal Reserve Chairman on Wednesday, the subtext will be all about trust trust in the Fed and the future value of the dollar.
On Jan. 5 the Federal Reserve began its first purchases of government-guaranteed mortgage securities.
The provision, named after Paul Volcker, a former chairman of the Federal Reserve, was first unveiled by Barack Obama in January.
Take oilfield services giant National Oilwell: First Reserve led the group that bought the company in January 1996 from USX and took it public eight months later (while maintaining a controlling interest in the company).
Kenney's next alleged accounting maneuver: Instead of restating 2002 results (which, of course, would have blown his cover immediately), he allowed WRC Media to record a bad debt reserve for the first quarter of 2003.
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