Continuing my look at currency value (see ), here's several ways of looking at "How much is that asset worth?"
The green/red price bars are the S&P 500 . The green line is M2 money velocity , one measure of value and dilution of the US dollar. It's basically how many times our GDP could "buy" our money supply . It's interesting to notice how public...
I'm neither economist nor investment advisor, but the rise of cryptocurrency got me thinking about physical currency in America.
Most of us know the U.S. Treasury prints money. Here's a chart, roughly, of how much they've been printing:
There are several measures of money supply, but FRED:M2 is a fair picture of how much cash is out there. As you can see,...