How Much Money Inflation?

Mises Daily by Howard S. Katz | Posted on 7/1/2009

The Federal Reserve is lying about the nation's money supply (M1). The current figure for money supply is being given as $1.6 trillion. The actual number is $2.34 trillion. The reported number is equivalent to an increase of 16% over the past year. The actual number is equivalent to an increase of 70% over the past year. This compares with the nation's high money-supply increase of 16.9% in 1986.

Astute observers of the Federal Reserve have noticed that, since the large infusion of money of last autumn, the monetary base has exceeded the money supply: FULL STORY