Sentence examples for main policy lever from inspiring English sources

Reducing banks' reserve requirements, which allows them to increase lending, is widely expected to be the main policy lever.

The Fed's main policy lever is the interest rate on short-term loans between banks, which, in turn, affects mortgage rates and many other rates.

The Federal Reserve, like most major central banks, has already lowered its short-term interest rate, its main policy lever, in effect to zero.

Today, the unemployment rate is 10 percent, and the Fed has kept the federal funds rate, its main policy lever, near zero for more than a year as Mr. Bernanke and the bank have been criticized for contributing to the housing bubble and the financial collapse.

The goal of the unprecedented effort was to push long-term interest rates lower to give the economy a boost at a time when the Fed's main policy lever, short-term interest rates, had already been pushed as low as they could go near zero.

In more innocent times, I would assume this was a coordinated move by Wilshaw and Gove to construct a picture in which the main problem with education was feckless parenting, so the main policy levers should be the punishment of fecklessness.

The main policy levers identified to achieve change were innovation and reform, immigration, training capacity and efficiency and workforce distribution.

The main policy levers identified to achieve change were innovation and reform, training capacity and efficiency and workforce distribution.

Preventing climate change requires the biggest lever available, which for business is usually a policy lever.

Many states and cities, including California, are raising the minimum wage as a policy lever.

The use of payment as a policy lever increased over time.