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- From: bgoffe@seq.uncwil.edu (Bill Goffe)
- Subject: Re: Money Supply (Re: WELLLLL! IT'S DAY ONE)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.173726.2048@seq.uncwil.edu>
- Organization: Univ. of North Carolina @ Wilmington
- References: <1jq2fgINNrep@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1993Jan25.103542.7525@hemlock.cray.com> <1993Jan25.201022.18348@Princeton.EDU> <1993Jan27.161823.16376@ttinews.tti.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:37:26 GMT
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- kevin@drogges.tti.com (Kevin Carothers) writes:
-
- >In article <1993Jan25.201022.18348@Princeton.EDU> nfs@volkl (Norbert Schlenker) writes:
- >%In article <1993Jan25.103542.7525@hemlock.cray.com> rja@mahogany126.cray.com (Russ Anderson) writes:
- >%>
- >%>In June 1992, M1 had grown 11% over the previous 12 months (Source:
- >%>Federal Reserve Board). The 3 month average was 6% (indicating a
- >%>slowdown in the rate).
- >%
- >%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.)
- >%
- >%Any economists care to guess? I've set followups to sci.econ in hopes
- >%of some reasonable speculation.
- >
- > I am by NO means an economist, but I'll answer anyway :)
-
- > EuroDollars and EastDollars.
- > Believe it or not, one of the chief exports of the US is... dollars!
-
- > When a Japanese businessman buys a Korean freighter, the transaction is
- > (usually) undertaken in dollars. When a Dutch oil freighter loads
- > a tanker full of oil in the mideast, the transaction is undertaken
- > in dollars. Ther list goes on and on and on...
-
- But why do it with currency? I don't think a Dutch oil freighter captain is
- going to pay with a stack of green. $1M in $20's weighs several hundred
- pounds...
-
- As another post showed, the increase in cash, as described above, may not
- have even occurred.
-
- Bill Goffe
- bgoffe@seq.uncwil.edu
-