Ms. STEVENS: Well, you know, a lot of the ones that are being pushed the hardest for Oscars are ones, precisely, that haven't been released yet, because of course they like to reserve the maximum amount of Oscar juice for that last burst right before Christmas.
Only a modest amount of reserve capacity is needed to keep the system from going down when one or a few power plants crash.
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The key issue here is that over the last five years the Federal Reserve has pumped an enormous amount of money into the financial system.
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The American Bankers Association scored a victory today when the Federal Reserve agreed to increase the amount banks can collect from merchants each time a consumer swipes his debit card from its original proposal.
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Among measures announced on September 14th, the Federal Reserve temporarily suspended rules restricting the amount of money that banks can lend to their investment-banking affiliates.
The Federal Reserve in December proposed capping the amount banks can charge merchants for debit transactions at seven to 12 cents, from an average rate of 44 cents.
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It also means that Islamic banking needs to be full-reserve banking--Western banks typically loan out a multiple of the amount of money they have on hand, or in reserve.
The US Federal Reserve has a system to control the amount of currency in circulation.
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As discussed above, their effect is to increase both the supply of money and the reserve cover against that supply by the full amount of the program.
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We have the financial ombudsmen for complaints, the FSA and international organisations regulating how we communicate information, the structure of our charges and the amount of money we hold in reserve to support our lending.
The stampede was partly an attempt to reduce the amount of capital banks needed to reserve against possible losses on such bonds, as well as an effort to avoid the wrath of risk-averse investors, executives say.
Bank of Ireland blamed the rising cost of providing these mortgages and new rules on the amount of capital it must hold in reserve.
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Last month, India's central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) lowered the amount of money that banks need to keep in reserves in a bid to boost lending.
The exchange's decision to increase the amount of assets brokers have to keep in reserve against the revolving loans they routinely use to fund trading - known as "badla" - triggered a sharp fall in the market.
If that were the case, even under the fraction reserve system, banks would never be able to loan the amount of money they do.
At the same time, the RBI has - twice in two months - lowered the amount of money that banks need to keep in reserve to try to boost lending.
With this in mind, and in an effort to stoke up lending, the People's Bank of China has cut the amount of money that banks need to keep in reserve three times in the past few months.
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Unlike the Federal Reserve, the ECB will offset these purchases by taking an equal amount of money out of circulation.
The amount is an all-time high as the Federal Reserve continues to expand its balance sheet, partially to purchase U.S. government debt securities.
This included two interest rate cuts and lowering the amount of of money that banks need to keep in reserve in a bid to boost lending.
Regulators say holding back a small amount of customer cash would decrease the amount of capital that firms would have to hold in reserve and compare the idea to a minimum account balance required by banks.
Typically there is a cap on the amount that they can raise it in response to the Federal Reserve raise.
It has been estimated on the basis of the amount of indium in zinc ore stocks, there is a world reserve base of 6, 000 tonnes.
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Typically, such a reserve will be based on the reasonable evaluation of litigation counsel as to the outside amount of the claim.
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It is controlled in part by the amount of dollars printed by the Treasury and put into circulation by the Federal Reserve.
Of this amount 30 million barrels will be released from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
Many people think inflation is on the horizon because the large amount of government spending since the financial crisis, and the fact that the Federal Reserve is keeping interest rates so low.
The Federal Reserve will continue raising short-term interest rates, but unless it stops printing an excessive amount of money, it will give us a replay, although a milder version, of the dreadful stagnation experiences of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Adjust the reserve to a more typical level--and thereby move the tangible book down by a like amount--and Citi doesn't look so cheap.
Mr Huhne said the government would aim to encourage new entrants into the energy market, make clean energy more attractive to investors, develop reserve plants to ensure "the lights stay on" during periods of high demand, and limit the amount of carbon emissions from "dirty" power stations.
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