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I think liquidity might have been the word you were looking for, but your example was not an increase in money supply. Creating money and storing it in a bank a
by AmericanChopper 7y ago
I think liquidity might have been the word you were looking for, but your example was not an increase in money supply. Creating money and storing it in a bank account increases supply. Creating money and adding it to a banks reserves increases supply. Withdrawing cash and permanently storing it somewhere decreases supply. Increasing reserve requirements decreases supply. If the amount held in reserve goes up because a bank doesn’t want to loan, or charges too much for it, that decreases supply.
Inflation is entirely about the supply and demand for money. You were just calculating it wrong.
- smabie 7y agoMost economists look at the velocity and supply in order to calculate inflation for their models. If you want combine them into supply and demand, fine. But seperating the concepts is valuable. Moreover the velocity and liquidity of money are seperate concepts.