Monetary policy decisions can be either contractionary or expansionary. Contractionary monetary policy is also known as “tightening” or “restrictive” policy and is designed to slow down ...

While the primary goal of a contractionary (or hawkish) monetary policy is to combat rising inflation rates, it deters unsustainable speculative spending and asset bubbles. However, these measures ...

The country’s businesses are currently facing three major challenges: law and order and security concerns, contractionary monetary policy and associated economic trends, and energy supply disruptions, ...

With much of the media focusing on the plans and objectives being articulated by Trump and his many prospective appointees, I fear that many of us are being distracted from what may be the most ...

When the central bank pursues expansionary monetary policy, it increases the supply of money in the economy. When the central bank pursues contractionary monetary policy, it reduces the supply of ...

given all of the above, more likely the expansionary fiscal policy will end up being contractionary in terms ... could potentially be expanded to the monetary side—hopefully the increase in ...

The Bangladesh Bank has decided to introduce two more bills which would have tenures much longer than those of the three bills currently available in an effort to mop up excess liquidity from the ...

However, abandoning the contractionary monetary policy would not be wise either, Hussain said. "If the fire brigade is unable to extinguish the fire, you don't let it burn, remove the brigade and ...

Contractionary monetary policy is the opposite to an expansionary monetary policy. Central banks will look to contract the supply of money in the economy by selling bonds. This is called ...