How to Use the money supply in a Sentence

the money supply

noun
  • The banks have less money to spend, and the money supply shrinks.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2012
  • Such a move would have doubled the money supply overnight.
    — David McWilliams, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2025
  • That can only occur if the money supply picks up.
    — Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Now, the money supply is still growing at 67% a year.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025
  • There is a right way and a wrong way to think about the key properties of dollars and the money supply.
    — Hersh Shefrin, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Shrinking the money supply to control costs.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • The media, blind to the central role of the money supply, fails to see this conundrum.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 1 Mar. 2026
  • In the same way the flow of the money supply determines interest rates.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 1 Mar. 2026
  • This means the Fed sets interest rates and controls the money supply.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Since March 2022, the money supply has been falling like a stone.
    — John Greenwood, National Review, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The result is that the money supply increases.
    — Hersh Shefrin, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Econ teachers taught even freshman intro students about the money supply in great detail.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 11 May 2025
  • Managing the money supply of a modern economy is a dirty job, but somebody has to do it.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 1 Mar. 2026
  • One effective approach to keeping prices in check is to reduce the money supply within the state.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • That move increases the money supply in the economy.
    — Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2025
  • The central bank boosted the money supply and lowered interest rates.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2024
  • The specter of inflation will only reappear if the Fed balloons the money supply.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025
  • In her first five years, the money supply exceeded its original growth target by a wide margin every year.
    — Tim Lankester, Fortune, 16 May 2024
  • The sharp reversal and squeeze in the money supply has had dramatic consequences.
    — Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 4 May 2023
  • Gold and silver tend to hold value when the dollar weakens or when governments increase the money supply.
    — Sharon Wu, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Then, between last July and this May, the money supply dropped nearly 5%.
    — Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 13 July 2023
  • All a central bank can do is vary the money supply and during the last 20 years the Fed has fired most of its ammunition.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 21 Sep. 2025
  • That indirectly boosts the money supply.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Among many methods deployed, the most common was to debase the circulating coins and inflate the money supply.
    — Dave Birnbaum, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
  • Because the money supply is simply too complex for humans to reliably manage.
    — Korok Ray, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Shrinking the money supply squeezes the financial system and pushes interest rates up.
    — John S. Tobey, Forbes, 15 July 2023
  • The wrong way to think about dollars is as dollar bills; and the wrong way to think about increasing the money supply is as a printing press, printing more dollar bills.
    — Hersh Shefrin, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • And the central bank is not watching the money supply, the force that drives all economic activity, but which operates with a lag.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 16 June 2023
  • Will the adoption of these digital tokens expand the money supply and unleash inflation?
    — James Broughel, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
  • Wesbury said the greatest current influence on the pace and direction of inflation is the money supply.
    — George Avalos, Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2026

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