Conventional monetary policy operates by altering short term interest rates, which includes the central bank buying and selling short term government debt. No intervention in the foreign exchange market buying and selling foreign currency is involved.

Instead of buying silk, they're buying thugs.

From buying?

I'm buying.

He's buying apples.

Still buying that?

Pancho is buying!

Not just buying.

Two. I'm buying.

Are you buying?

But you make me feel I'm buying it, I'm just buying, and I'm not!

Investors are buying long term bonds at the current low interest rates because the interest rate on short term investments is now close to zero. In other words, buyers are getting an additional 2 current yield in exchange for assuming the risk of holding long term bonds.

We're buying movie tickets.

I'm not buying any.

Who's buying the wine?

How about buying one?

How about buying something?

I'm buying this one.

I've been away on business buying rice, in fact

We're interested in the bulk buying of fermentation chemicals.

To increase commercial banks reserves, the Fed historically used open market operations, buying Treasury bills from them. The banks exchanged an interest paying Treasury bill for a reserve deposit at the Fed that historically did not earn any interest.

This was an India that was buying Corvettes. This was an India that was buying Jaguar.

The five countries in trouble will need to place tens of billions of euros in new debt and roll over even larger amounts of old debt. Markets long ago stopped buying bonds issued by Greece, Ireland, and Portugal, and might soon stop buying paper issued by Italy and Spain or do so only at prohibitive interest rates.

They are now buying cars.

I'm buying a new car.

Nope, I'm not buying it.

Why bother buying so many?

You buying up the town?

Fancy you buying a cake.

Now that's not buying happiness.

That's just buying off unhappiness.

I hear you're buying rice

Your Caesar is buying you!

Naturally, I'm not buying that.

You're better off buying paint.

Never stops buying flying machines.

Should we... start buying soon?

His goal in buying land is to build a house.

On top of these two powerful fundamental factors sits a bubble. The bubble is filled by people with money who are buying extra houses because they think home prices will continue to rise, and by people without money who are buying 400,000 houses in less fashionable neighborhoods with zero percent down and floating interest rates.

In many countries, buying or smoking cannabis is forbidden by law.

There is always trepidation about buying a pig in a poke.

Legislation preventing Palestine refugees from buying immovable property remains in force.

Now that you're in Marrakech, what are you buying and selling?

Buying foreign gold did succeed in driving down the dollar s value in terms of gold. But domestic prices continued falling throughout the three months of the gold buying spree.

I finished buying a dozen eggs.