Word: lending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deposit in their bank accounts. The checks become new money, available to be loaned out. When the Fed sells Government securities, it withdraws money from circulation; the buyers pay with checks that disappear into Federal Reserve vaults, never more to be seen. The less money that banks have to lend, the higher interest rates will rise. The FOMC focuses on the Fed funds rate at which banks lend to each other, targeting its buying and selling to push up or pull down that rate to a desired level. The Fed funds rate influences all other interest rates...
Most sheep chicers are recent escapees from the suburbs, who get their folk wisdom from Blair & Ketchum's Country Journal. But their money and enthusiasm, along with a certain craving for hand-spun yarn and naturally colored fleece, lend impetus to the recent renaissance in New Hampshire sheep raising...
...Richardson is ready to start the drive home to Arlington. Tomorrow he will head out to the Hilltop Steak House is Saugus to buy a whole side of beef. Then it will be back to work--a job with the kind of slow-passing hours that lend themselves so well to conversations and recollection...
Merino was not sure whether Curry will make the Giants' roster, but he sounded an optimistic note: "He's really impressed me as a college receiver, and he'll lend some class to the Giants...
...Sometimes it'll happen that two or three of us will end up in the same place at the same time and kibitz for a few minutes but it's rare. It's not that it's a tense or intense kind of place but it just doesn't lend itself to that," she says. "One person to one office really sets the tone," Gibson adds. In this respect, Gibson's experience at Widener, where about ten people shared one large office, was markedly different...