central bank

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The central bank had just rolled out plans to do things it would never ordinarily do: lending to midsize businesses, purchasing junk bonds and hoovering up Treasury securities at a pace it had never attempted.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

But what of the €210bn frozen Russian central bank assets the EU has sitting in its jurisdiction, mainly in Belgium?

From BBC • May 2, 2026

Signs of price inflation are likely to catch the attention of the central bank.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Kevin Warsh will be grappling with greater uncertainty and less uniformity at the Fed when he probably takes over from Jerome Powell as head of the U.S. central bank on May 15.

From Barron's • May 1, 2026

One kind of monetary policy, which involves the central bank buying private assets, is chunked as quantitative easing.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker