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by nocommentguy 1879 days ago
More like the value of the dollar has roughly halved due to record money-printing and this is reflected in capital assets firsts.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?width=880&he...

MMT apologists are the modern day petit bourgeois. Trust the experts!

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The value of the dollar has not halved....

Against a basket of currencies, the US dollar index is approximately 10% lower than it was from the start of the pandemic. Pointing to the fed money supply chart as evidence is woefully misleading.

Dollar index historical: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/currency

> Against a basket of currencies,

Counterpoint would be that against "a basket of assets" it is decreasing in value rapidly.

The EUR is probably tanking just as fast. What you are doing is like saying "shipping prices for steel have not increased, because the price to get a kilogram of steel across the ocean is hardly more than the price to get a kilogram of coal across the ocean".

Much of the increase was just banks relabeling their M2 money as M1. This happened when banks stopped penalizing people from withdrawing from their savings account more 6 times a month.
Yeah, it's annoying, it ruins the usefulness of the charts but it has no short term or long term significance.