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- See also changes related to Money, or pages that link to Money or to this page or whose text contains "Money".
- Bill of Exchange [r]: A written order to pay the holder a stated sum of money at a stated date (otherwise known as a "draft", the person who is paid being termed the "drawer"). [e]
- Fiat money [r]: money whose value is determined solely by government order, or "fiat" (as distinct from commodity money that has value because of its scarcity or cost of production). [e]
- Liquidity [r]: (i) The quantity of available assets in its possession that an organisation could rapidly exchange for cash (assets that cannot be exchanged for cash at a particular time are considered to be "illiquid" at that time); (ii) the funding that is unconditionally available to settle claims through monetary authorities (termed "official liquidity"). [e]
- Liquidity trap [r]: a state of the economy in which an expansionary monetary policy has no effect upon output. [e]
- Monetary base [r]: currency in circulation plus bank vault cash plus deposits held by banks at the central bank (termed "high-powered money" in the US, and referred to as M0 in the UK). [e]
- Money market [r]: A market for short-term debt instruments (generally of maturity after less than one year) such as certificates of deposit, commercial paper, and Treasury bills. [e]
- Open market operation [r]: The buying and selling of government securities in order to influence the level of banking reserves. [e]
- Reserves (banking) [r]: A bank's holding of deposits at its central bank plus the currency held in its vaults. [e]
- Reserve ratio [r]: The ratio of a bank's reserves to its deposits, a minimum value of which is set by its central bank with the effect of limiting the proportion of its deposits that the bank is permitted to lend. [e]
- Opportunity cost [r]: The cost of taking part in one activity in terms of the lost opportunities, which could have been pursued using the same resources of time and money. [e]
- Computer [r]: A machine that executes a sequence of instructions. [e]
- Byte [r]: A byte is a unit of data consisting of (usually) eight binary digits, each of which is called a bit. [e]
- Federal Reserve notes [r]: A type of U.S. paper currency, first issued 1914; since 1963 the only type. [e]