Money Supply Growth Falls Again, Dropping to 105-Month Low

Jon Economy

Growth in the supply of US dollars fell again in May, this time to a 105-month low of 5.4 percent. The last time the money supply grew at a smaller rate was during September 2008 – at a rate of 5.2 percent.
The money-supply metric used here – an “Austrian money supply” measure – is the metric developed by Murray Rothbard and Joseph Salerno, and is designed to provide a better measure than M2. The Mises Institute now offers regular updates on this metric and its growth.
The “Austrian” measure of the money supply differs from M2 in that it includes treasury deposits at the Fed (and excludes short time deposits, traveler’s checks, and retail money funds).
M2 growth also slowed in May, falling to 5.6 percent, a 20-month low.

This post was published at Ludwig von Mises Institute on July 21, 2017.