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Look at this graph of the money supply. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL#0 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL#0 I see one huge jump and it wasn't i

• dragontamer 3y ago
  Ctrl-F the above post. He wasn't talking about M2 money supply. He was talking about ZIRP and QE. Presumably 2008 QE1, 2010 QE2, and 2012 QE3. (Either talking about those, or preferring to ignore those historical moments). At least, all the online people for the last decade have been calling "QE1 / QE2 / QE3" the money printer. (You know, not the people who understand the economy. But the people who use words like ZIRP, Money Printer, and inflation in the same sentence). ----------- We have a complex economy with many issues. But the one thing I've learned is to never trust what the ZeroHedge doomers say. Sometimes, the Hawks are correct. Sometimes, the doves are correct. But without a doubt, the conspiracy theorists will come out of the woodwork and complain about money printers or whatever (despite M2 declining this past year).
• Arainach 3y ago
  The "spike" was when the metrics changed: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h6/h6_technical_qa.htm https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h6/h6_technical_qa.h...