Money Credit and Financial Systems

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Money Credit and Financial Systems

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1. Credit and debt (20 entries)
  1. debt servicing
  2. credit facility
  3. extend credit
  4. creditworthiness
  5. refinancing
  6. revolving credit
  7. collateral
  8. arrears
  9. secured lending
  10. principal
  11. unsecured lending
  12. default
  13. assess default risk
  14. write off a debt
  15. maturity date
  16. unsecured loan
  17. consolidate debt
  18. borrow against
  19. overcommit
  20. guarantor
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2. Financial institutions (20 entries)
  1. financial intermediary
  2. reserve balance
  3. provide liquidity
  4. regulatory authority
  5. deposit holder
  6. channel savings
  7. institutional investor
  8. capital requirement
  9. pension fund
  10. lender of last resort
  11. issue bonds
  12. secured loan
  13. transaction
  14. equity investment
  15. institutional rhetoric
  16. inlet
  17. sandbank
  18. estuary
  19. basin
  20. clasp
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3. Monetary policy language (20 entries)
  1. monetary easing
  2. monetary policy
  3. policy stance
  4. forward guidance
  5. monetary tightening
  6. money supply
  7. curb demand
  8. assess inflation pressure
  9. policy rate
  10. transmission mechanism
  11. anchor expectations
  12. quantitative easing
  13. asset purchase
  14. inflation target
  15. central bank reserves
  16. stimulate borrowing
  17. benchmark rate
  18. sentence rhythm
  19. structural edit
  20. embedded clause
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4. Market confidence (20 entries)
  1. price in a risk
  2. flight to safety
  3. investor sentiment
  4. safe asset
  5. portfolio
  6. yield
  7. capital outflow
  8. liquidity
  9. bond price
  10. trigger a sell-off
  11. quantify exposure
  12. downside exposure
  13. risk tolerance
  14. concentrated risk
  15. spread risk
  16. upside potential
  17. concentrated exposure
  18. distribution of risk
  19. worst-case exposure
  20. loss threshold
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5. Financial instability (20 entries)
  1. financial instability
  2. systemic risk
  3. contain a crisis
  4. sunk cost
  5. absorb losses
  6. liquidity shortage
  7. asset bubble
  8. insolvency
  9. leverage
  10. credit crunch
  11. bank run
  12. rebuild capital
  13. stress test
  14. fragility
  15. expose a weakness
  16. cascading failure
  17. cumulative cause
  18. background condition
  19. be conditional upon
  20. a silver lining
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