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credit squeeze

Situation where there is insufficient money supply to meet demand. In macroeconomics, the term is used to describe a government's attempts to dampen economic activity by reducing the money supply. Measures taken by a government to do this may include raising interest rates to make borrowing more expensive and discouraging banks from lending money.



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