money supply
noun
: the total amount of money available in an economy for spending as calculated by any of various methods (as by adding total currency to funds available in private checking accounts)
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web This could have easily exacerbated inflation even more than the money supply dynamic alone. 
Ivan Illan, Forbes, 27 June 2022 Economist Christopher Thornberg says San Diego’s overall economy remains on solid footing but nationally, the Federal Reserve needs to tighten the nation’s money supply to avoid stumbling into a recession. Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Apr. 2022 This is true only if the objective of monetary policy is to keep all money-market rates within the range that the Fed chooses for the fed-funds rate, and to ignore the consequences for other goals—like the growth rate of the money supply. WSJ, 18 July 2022 Attempts are being made to stop inflation from running away and the market falling in itself is a tightening of money supply that QT is set to create. Clem Chambers, Forbes, 6 June 2022 If the Fed didn’t oblige, the money supply wouldn’t have grown so significantly, and interest rates would have surely gone up markedly on government securities. WSJ, 8 Aug. 2022 If the money supply shrinks rapidly, our entire economic structure falls apart. Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica, 5 Aug. 2022 In essence, money supply versus money demand (where GDP is a good proxy) always settles into an equilibrium point. Ivan Illan, Forbes, 27 June 2022 Last year, at a time when the US economy was recovering strongly, the Fed kept its interest rate at its zero lower bound and allowed the broad money supply to balloon by 40% over a two-year period. Desmond Lachman For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 16 June 2022 See More
Ivan Illan, Forbes, 27 June 2022 Economist Christopher Thornberg says San Diego’s overall economy remains on solid footing but nationally, the Federal Reserve needs to tighten the nation’s money supply to avoid stumbling into a recession. Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Apr. 2022 This is true only if the objective of monetary policy is to keep all money-market rates within the range that the Fed chooses for the fed-funds rate, and to ignore the consequences for other goals—like the growth rate of the money supply. WSJ, 18 July 2022 Attempts are being made to stop inflation from running away and the market falling in itself is a tightening of money supply that QT is set to create. Clem Chambers, Forbes, 6 June 2022 If the Fed didn’t oblige, the money supply wouldn’t have grown so significantly, and interest rates would have surely gone up markedly on government securities. WSJ, 8 Aug. 2022 If the money supply shrinks rapidly, our entire economic structure falls apart. Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica, 5 Aug. 2022 In essence, money supply versus money demand (where GDP is a good proxy) always settles into an equilibrium point. Ivan Illan, Forbes, 27 June 2022 Last year, at a time when the US economy was recovering strongly, the Fed kept its interest rate at its zero lower bound and allowed the broad money supply to balloon by 40% over a two-year period. Desmond Lachman For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 16 June 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1871, in the meaning defined above