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quantitative tightening
a central bank reducing its holdings to withdraw money
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a policy in which a central bank reduces the amount of money it has lent to financial institutions and reduces its holdings of bonds and other securities, in order to make credit more difficult to obtain and reduce the money supply in an economy
Examples
- The Federal Reserve announced quantitative tightening to combat inflation by reducing its bond holdings.
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