money supply

noun

: the total amount of money available in an economy for spending as calculated by any of various methods (as by adding total currency to funds available in private checking accounts)

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Investors are expecting relief in the second quarter, however, given bitcoin’s two of its most persistent correlations : its positive correlation with money supply growth, also known as M2, and its negative correlation with the U.S. dollar index, or DXY . Tanaya MacHeel, CNBC, 24 Mar. 2025 The government stopped using gold to back the dollar on Aug. 15, 1971, when President Nixon made the announcement amid money supply and economic growth outpacing the amount of gold reserves that made up the gold standard. Marc Guberti, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2025 As money supply increases, the amount of fiat currency in circulation also increases - ultimately, this is the long-term decision-maker for inflation, which is a general increase in prices - or, flipped another way, the gradual loss of purchasing power for fiat money. Roger Huang, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025 As the banks lend, invest, and otherwise spend this new money, the overall money supply that’s circulating increases. IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2012 See All Example Sentences for money supply

Word History

First Known Use

1871, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of money supply was in 1871

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“Money supply.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/money%20supply. Accessed 7 Apr. 2025.

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