Yearly Archives: 2020
Money Supply
Written on December 28, 2020 at 8:14 am, by lishitong
The main role of any central bank is to control a country’s money supply. By decreasing borrowing costs, central banks are effectively increasing the money supply. The money supply is a measure of the entire amount of bills, notes, coins, loans, credit and other liquid instruments in circulation within a country’s economy. Money supply isContinue Reading
Inflation
Written on December 28, 2020 at 8:12 am, by lishitong
What is inflation?We’ve spoken about inflation a lot in this module, and in case you haven’t got it yet; put simply inflation is ‘Rising prices’. It can also be described as the sustained increase in the prices of goods and services. What does inflation do?Inflation causes what we call an erosion of the purchasing power ofContinue Reading
Economic Release
Written on December 28, 2020 at 8:08 am, by lishitong
Every given period of time, each country around the world will have what is called an economic release. A data release is the periodic publication of economic data and or news of a qualitative and quantitative nature. These data or news releases help paint a picture of the overall health of a company or country’sContinue Reading