Discover how the money supply, including cash and bank deposits, shapes economic stability through regulatory policies and decisions.

Macroeconomics studies an overall economy or market system, its behaviors, the factors that drive it, and how to improve its performance.

Crucial topics in economics go in and out like fashion trends. When I first taught macroecon in the 1980s, the money supply was a key issue in economic policy. Inflation was high. The Keynesian ...

We examine the money supply represented by M2, the Federal budget deficit, the Fed’s previous adventures with QE, and the correlation to inflation. The first is to view the inflation-adjusted value of ...

Investors occasionally rely on economic data points and forecasting tools to determine which direction stocks will head next. For only the fifth time since 1870, M2 money supply declined by at least 2 ...

M2 money supply declined by 4% to $20.8 trillion by March 2024, the largest drop since the Great Depression. Federal Reserve alters interest rates to manage money supply, stimulating or slowing the ...

The first flaw in the “run to hard assets” narrative is its treatment of money supply growth. The dollar is still used in 88% of global foreign exchange transactions, 58% of international exchange ...

The United States is entering a dangerous phase where the habits formed in the pandemic era, easy money and sweeping stimulus, collide with the hard arithmetic of debt, inflation, and slowing growth.

Despite a rocky start to 2025, the stock market has helped make a lot of investors wealthier over the last few years. After climbing 24% in 2023, the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) followed up that ...

On Sept. 24, financial assets soared to record levels, among them the S&P 500, which reached a record high of 5,735 and gold, which climbed to $2,670 an ounce. The yellow metal, in fact, is now higher ...

If you've invested in the stock market over the last couple of years, you may have benefited from an incredible bull run in the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC). The index climbed over 66% from the market ...