Printing money/Quantitative easing: related pages
Divisia money supply index
A weighted index measure of money supply.
M0 (monetary base)
Bank notes and coins in circulation plus banks deposits with the central bank.
M1
A measure of money supply: bank notes and coins plus sight deposits.
M2
A narrow measure of money supply that includes retail bank deposits. In the UK equivalent to the retail element of M4.
M3
A broad measure of money supply.
M4
The UK's main broad measure of money supply.
Discount window
A collateralised lending facility run by a central bank, lending to banks in order to ensure their short term liquidity.
Stagflation
Simultaneous inflation and recession.
GDP deflater
The inflation measure that is used to adjust economic growth statistics.
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