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Category Archive: M3

  1. What If The Fed’s Isn’t Printing Money Like A Drunken Sailor?

    What if con­ven­tional wis­dom about the Fed is wrong and it isn’t print­ing money like a drunken sailor? Well…that would make most of the media cov­er­age of the bond mar­ket and the econ­omy wildly off the mark. As it turns out while media talk­ing heads were rant­ing about how the Fed was run­ning their print­ing presses […] [read full story]

    Posted in: Bernanke, Brad Setser, Economic Statistics, Federal Reserve, Finance, M1, M2, M3, monetary policy, Money Supply, Politics, Public Policy
  2. MONEY SUPPLY AND ECONOMIC DATA WEEKLY WATCHTHE FED’S FAVORITE BIRD REMAINS THE HAWK AND PROMINENT ECONOMISTS MAKE UP DATA THAT DOESN’T EXIST" rel="bookmark">MONEY SUPPLY AND ECONOMIC DATA WEEKLY WATCHTHE FED’S FAVORITE BIRD REMAINS THE HAWK AND PROMINENT ECONOMISTS MAKE UP DATA THAT DOESN’T EXIST

    Money Sup­ply For the week end­ing August 11TH, money sup­ply grew by $7.0 bil­lion to $7,728.1 bil­lion (as mea­sured by M2 on a sea­son­ally adjusted basis). Since the week end­ing March 24th sea­son­ally adjusted M2 has only increased by approx­i­mately 0.35% which means that M2 con­tin­ues to grow at a rate of less than 1% […] [read full story]

    Posted in: BANKS, Bernanke, Deflation, Federal Reserve, Finance, GDP, Inflation, M2, M3, monetary policy, Money Supply