In the meantime they will hold idle money balances instead.

It was the kind of flawless recreation which only truly idle money could achieve.

Instead they would prefer to hold idle money balances in the knowledge that, if they wait, the rate of interest will go up again.

But he calls the unemployment checks "idle money."

But it's also an environment that many corporte treasurers, who want to preserve capital while putting idle money to work, are not used to.

They do not permit competition in their own countries, but they buy up energy companies in other countries using this idle money.

Ask if your broker will conduct a daily "sweep" of your account - putting any idle money into an interest-bearing account.

The combination of monopoly production and idle money, Mr. Petrakov said, would mean an explosion of inflation if the Government lifted price controls.

The Central Bank of Iran indicate that 70 percent of the Iranians own homes., with huge amounts of idle money entering the housing market.

The amount of idle money lying with the commercial banks in Sylhet as deposits is about 4,000 kuti taka, which is not common in the rest of Bangladesh.

Disdain for 'Idle Money' By the time he arrived at 8:25, the office, as dreary as a dingy bus terminal, was already crowded and the faces of the waiting men and women already looked weary.

Witt Stephens also earned commissions when the bank's trust department bought government bonds with the idle money it had to invest from municipal bonds it was handling for Stephens Inc., according to bankers.

As the House took up a bill to provide almost $92 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as hurricane recovery, the Republican leadership prevented its conservative wing from proposing to pay for the spending out of idle money.

Mr. Bernanke has argued that the combination of low interest rates and the United States' expanding trade deficit stemmed in part from a "global savings glut" - a vast pool of idle money in Asia and other parts of the world that found its way back into the United States.

Thus, where the money supply expanded, people would not simply wish to hold the extra money in idle money balances; i.e., if they were in equilibrium before the increase, they were already holding money balances to suit their requirements, and thus after the increase they would have money balances surplus to their requirements.