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- From: spector@sumax.seattleu.edu (Mitchell Spector)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: Re: Money Supply (Re: WELLLLL! IT'S DAY ONE)
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 13:39:23 -0800
- Organization: Seattle University
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- In article <1993Jan25.201022.18348@Princeton.EDU> nfs@volkl (Norbert Schlenker) writes:
-
- >In December 1992, M1 had grown 15% over the previous 12 months (same
- >source). The actual increase was $125 billion and it was ALL currency.
- >Federal Reserve Notes. All of it. Currency outstanding increased by
- >50% in one year.
-
- >Now I'm puzzled, because I simply do not understand what people are
- >doing with all this currency. Did we ship it all to Colombia? Does
- >half the country have a couple of thousand dollars stuffed (literally)
- >under the mattress? Are people that scared? (I am, but I certainly
- >don't get that impression from others while walking around.)
-
- >Norbert
- >nfs@cs.princeton.edu
-
- I've been curious about this also. I'd have to go back and check the
- figures, but as I recall, the increase is not all in currency; both
- currency and demand deposits had increases of about 10-15% in the past
- year. Meanwhile, savings deposits had a much smaller increase (1% ?),
- and M3 is at best staying constant (and perhaps actually dropping right
- now).
-
- To a certain extent, people may be moving money from money market
- funds to FDIC-insured institutions, since the money market funds no longer
- offer higher interest rates. But this provides no explanation for the
- large increase in actual cash, which is especially strange if there really
- is a downturn in the total money supply.
-
- So does anybody have any explanations for this? And what are the
- possible consequences? (Is this a prelude to deflation?)
- --
- Mitchell Spector
- E-mail: spector@seattleu.edu
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