Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• DRAINING RESERVES
  
  Federal Reserve System's course of action to tighten the money supply by (1) raising a bank's minimum reserve requirements, (2) selling bonds in the open market, (3) raising the rate at which banks borrow from the Fed, or (4) through draw-downs.
  
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