Posts Tagged ‘Federal Reserve’

Monetary Inflation Watch

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

The monetary inflation continues… M0 is now about twice as large as it was?

m0_20090130

This will be fun. Maybe.

Oh Dear God the Monetary Inflation

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

Economists get their own “J-curve” [St. Louis Fed]:

Houston, we have a (monetary) problem

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Helicopter Ben has just become Rocket Ben, according to the latest M0 figure from the Fed’s published data. [St. Louis Fed]

Btw, Ron Paul. [CNN]

Helicopter Ben makes good on his name: M0 going through the roof

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

From the Fed’s own published data: [St. Louis Fed]

The Monetary Base, or M0, is the amount of physical (or, practically physical, i.e., deposits sitting in the central bank) currency in existence.

“But the U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press…” – Ben Bernanke, the Helicopter Speech