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excess reserves |
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Excess reserves Amount of reserves held by an institution in excess of its reserve requirement and required clearing balance. Also see reserves. Excess reserves Actual reserves that exceed required reserves.
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| Depositories would need to hold higher levels of excess reserves at Federal Reserve Banks as a precaution against such overdrafts, and demand for these excesses would vary from day to day and be difficult to predict. He discussed the Fed's attempt to lower interest rates by pumping excess reserves in the banking system: ``The excess credit, which the Fed pumped into the economy spilled over into the stock market - triggering a fantastic speculative boom. For example, when the Bank of Japan wishes to tighten, it withdraws excess reserves at a rate faster than is usually the case. |
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