the money supply
noun
business
: the total amount of money available for spending in a country's economy
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One positive economic indicator is announced, say on inflation, and pundits assert that the Fed now will ease up on the money supply, letting interest rates fall.
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Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 11 Feb. 2024
The following chart compares the growth of income, the money supply measured by M2, and stock-market value measured by the Wilshire 5000 index:
After decades of comparable increases, money and stock-market values shot far ahead of income growth beginning with the asset bubble of the 2000s.
—Douglas Carr, National Review, 7 Feb. 2024
Because the money supply is simply too complex for humans to reliably manage.
—Korok Ray, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
Since then, to keep inflation in check, the Fed tightened the money supply effectively raising interest rates.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 11 Feb. 2024
By rejecting the quantity theory of money and the money supply, Powell and the Fed have given us whiplash: first an unprecedented explosion in M2 and now a contraction that, to date, is already the third largest in the Fed’s history.
—John Greenwood, National Review, 13 Dec. 2023
And so with each home equity loan, car loan, and mortgage, banks add incrementally to the money supply.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2012
Since March 2022, the money supply (M2) has contracted by 4.5%.
—WSJ, 15 Jan. 2024
The Federal Reserve has shoved interest rates higher by tightening the money supply in a quest to curb inflation.
—George Avalos, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2024
Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 11 Feb. 2024
The following chart compares the growth of income, the money supply measured by M2, and stock-market value measured by the Wilshire 5000 index:
After decades of comparable increases, money and stock-market values shot far ahead of income growth beginning with the asset bubble of the 2000s.
—Douglas Carr, National Review, 7 Feb. 2024
Because the money supply is simply too complex for humans to reliably manage.
—Korok Ray, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
Since then, to keep inflation in check, the Fed tightened the money supply effectively raising interest rates.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 11 Feb. 2024
By rejecting the quantity theory of money and the money supply, Powell and the Fed have given us whiplash: first an unprecedented explosion in M2 and now a contraction that, to date, is already the third largest in the Fed’s history.
—John Greenwood, National Review, 13 Dec. 2023
And so with each home equity loan, car loan, and mortgage, banks add incrementally to the money supply.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2012
Since March 2022, the money supply (M2) has contracted by 4.5%.
—WSJ, 15 Jan. 2024
The Federal Reserve has shoved interest rates higher by tightening the money supply in a quest to curb inflation.
—George Avalos, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2024
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