tight money in English

noun
1
money or financing that is available only at high rates of interest.
Second, most Russians believe that tight money (low inflation, high interest rates) has not worked during the last four years.

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1. Is its cost acceptable in these days of high unemployment and tight money?

2. Alan Greenspan, chairman of America’s Federal Reserve, can help by avoiding tight money but he cannot undo this structural shift.

3. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, first appointed by Jimmy Carter, deserves enormous credit for bringing inflation down to 2% in 1983 from 5% in 1981 with a tight-money policy.