Word: rediscounted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...graveyard. As the week wore on and the tombstones stood out more clearly in the gathering darkness, the speculators stopped whistling and started to run. Directors of the New York Federal Reserve Bank held a lengthy and private meeting, after which, however, no change was announced in the rediscount rate...
...Market. None of these measures was by themselves particularly drastic (was offset, for example, by failure to raise the rediscount rate), but taken altogether they gave nervous speculators chills & fever. On Friday call money went from 6½% to 10% and the whole market went off in a sharp decline that continued through Saturday's closing. There was nothing resembling a panic but the orderly retreat was rapid, sustained, unchecked by short covering...
...ideal rediscount rate is a rate that is high enough to discourage speculative borrowing and low enough to encourage industrial borrowing. The determination of such a rate is obviously a delicate matter involving many considerations other than bulls and bears alone. The New York rediscount rate has, however, been raised three times in the last year (though without any withering effect on the market), t was not raised following the Reserve Board's proclamation of last week...
There remained also the possibility that the Reserve banks would either raise their rediscount rates or attempt to persuade member banks to call in New York call money...
...rediscount rate is the rate at which a Federal Reserve bank discounts loans to member banks...