expansion
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Warsh has indicated a strong preference to shrink the Fed’s balance sheet, the expansion of which has supported the inflation of asset values, including stocks, precious metals, and cryptocurrencies.
From Barron's
The hope, in the late 1980s, was that a reforming Russia would see no need for nuclear expansion.
An era of ultralow interest rates helped spur the longest postwar expansion in U.S. history and pump Silicon Valley into a global juggernaut.
The Bank of Canada projects growth will average 1.5% over the next two years, though it doesn’t expect the jobless rate to trend higher, as lower population growth limits any expansion of the labor force.
The Canadian and French missions are a historic expansion of foreign engagement in Greenland.
From BBC
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