How to Use money supply in a Sentence

money supply

noun
  • To do that, the Fed has to put the money supply on its dashboard.
    — John Greenwood, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
  • In many countries, money supply is growing at some of the fastest rates on record.
    — Ben Holland, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2020
  • The goal is to reduce the amount of money supply in the economy.
    — Arkansas Online, 16 June 2022
  • To see if money supply is jumping or slumping, first note what money is.
    — Ken Fisher, USA TODAY, 10 June 2018
  • Rather, it may be driven, in part, by a major increase in the money supply.
    — Q.ai - Make Genius Money Moves, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The money supply must grow in tandem with output in good and services to keep prices stable.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The answer lies in the time lags between changes in the rate of growth in the money supply and inflation.
    — Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 8 Apr. 2022
  • One of those, money supply, has been a poor guide to inflation and could be downgraded.
    — Paul Gordon, Bloomberg.com, 13 May 2020
  • Rates would go back up, prices would stop rising and the money supply would return to $4 trillion.
    — Joseph Edgar, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
  • If the money supply grew too slowly, the Fed could cut rates to spur economic growth.
    — Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2022
  • Many economists say that inflation starts with the money supply, but there’s more to it than that.
    — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Now when market rates change, the money supply also changes unless the Fed acts.
    — Phil Gramm and, WSJ, 17 June 2019
  • The growth of goods and services absorbs or offsets increases in the money supply.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Those buys have slashed interest rates and sent the money supply soaring—with plenty of that new cash rolling straight into stocks.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Try asking your member of Congress a question about the money supply.
    — Alan S. Blinder, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2019
  • But the impact of changes in the money supply depends on the rate at which businesses and households transact.
    — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 23 Feb. 2021
  • As a result, the money supply surged, and US Treasury yields fell to an all-time low.
    — Edward Chancellor, The New York Review of Books, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Last year, the Fed kept interest rates too low for too long and allowed the broad money supply to increase at a rapid pace.
    — Desmond Lachman For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Central banks, meanwhile, only create around 3% of the world’s money supply.
    — Richard Werner, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Part of the problem was that China needed to run a trade surplus in order to increase its money supply.
    — Edward Chancellor, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Over the past couple of years the money supply has grown much more slowly as regulators have pushed banks to reduce their leverage.
    — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
  • The broad measure of money supply grew by 39% over the past year, which drove galloping inflation.
    — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Increase in money supply to cushion the impact of lockdowns led to a high demand for goods; producers were unable to match up.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Over the last year, central banks around the world have boosted the money supply in the global economy by $14 trillion.
    — Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Limiting the money supply would cause interest rates to rise, but the Fed would no longer aim for a specific increase.
    — New York Times, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Those new investment funds were not counted in the Fed’s broader measure of the money supply known as M2.
    — Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2022
  • Meanwhile, in an effort to maintain some value for the ZiG, the central bank has tightened money supply.
    — Tawanda Karombo, semafor.com, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The Fed is going to try to kill inflation by crimping the stock market and giving money supply and you and me a haircut via our assets.
    — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 19 May 2022
  • The Fed’s tightening campaign has slowed money supply growth but done little to kick-start velocity.
    — Ivan Illan, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Conversely, the Fed increases rates in order to reduce the risk of inflation when the money supply grows too large.
    — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 18 Mar. 2020

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