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Discount Rate

The interest rate at which financial institutions that are members of the Federal Reserve System may borrow on a short-term basis directly to cover temporary deficiencies in the bank’s reserves. The board of directors of each Reserve Bank establish the discount rate every fourteen days subject to the approval of the Board of Governors.

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