The dashed line shows M2’s growth rate. Note the period of more than a year, especially in 2020, where growth exceeded 20%, peaking at 27% in February 2021 as the Fed monetized the great $6 ...

A few things to note in the chart: M2 is now about $4.8 trillion larger than it would have been with a continuation of 6% ... (because nominal GDP has two components: real growth and inflation, ...

Chart #1 compares the level of the M2 money supply to its post-1995 trend line. $6 trillion of deficit spending was monetized in 2020-21, pushing M2 sharply higher and eventually causing a sizable ...

First, M2 growth in the 1970s was about the same as it was in the early 1980s (about 9% a year on average), yet inflation rose sharply in the 70s and fell sharply in the first half of the 80s.

Here’s an updated chart of annual M2 growth, with data through the second week of February. For the week ending on February 11, annual M2 growth was only 3.9%, more than two percentage points ...

What is all this “Biden inflation tax” talk really about? What is the actual effect of inflation on the lives of real people? Well, below is a chart that compares yearly wage and inflation ...

Below is an M2 chart, ... the peak correlation coefficient of 0.49 comes with a 31 one-month lag between M2 Y/Y growth and CPI Y/Y inflation. ... You'll now be able to see real-time price and ...

For example, here’s a chart showing what blue-collar wages looked like over the past two years: Over the past two years, CPI measured the inflation rate at 4.7 percent.

“With consumer price inflation slowing, and the labor markets solid, real incomes are rising. Since May, real incomes net of [excluding] transfers, a key recession determinant, are up roughly 3% ...

As of July, M2 was estimated to be $20.564 trillion. One account included in M2 earns interest paid by the government. ... The inflation tax is not only real, in 2021 it is really large.

Rather, inflation is surging, more than wiping out any wage gains those workers might have experienced. So, why is inflation surging in the Biden era? One factor is an imbalance between supply and ...