eric76 said:
Marcus Brutus said:
eric76 said:
Marcus Brutus said:
eric76 said:
Dang.
It started ramping up more with Obama, then a giant rise under Trump in 2020, and a lot more climbing under Biden.
Three peas in a pod.
Nonsense. It went down $1 trillion during Trump, 25%. Then covid hit and state governments started shutting down businesses.
Having trouble reading graphs? It didn't go down at all during Trump.
From the chart on the link, it 3,398.2 billion in January 2017 and was up to 4,020.1 by January 2020. In what magical universe is that a 25% decrease? And covid hitting is no excuse to pull out the stops and increase it to 18,093.7 by January 2021.
Yes it did. Powell sold almost $1 trillion in treasuries back to the banks during Trump's tenure pre covid. It's called quantitative tightening. Google it.
Yes, covid was real. State governments closed businesses. States can't print money to give out so people don't starve. So Powell reversed and started printing again.
You don't know you are talking about.
According to https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/28/trump-keeps-talking-about-quantitative-tightening-but-hes-overstating-its-impact.html Trump was furious about the quantitative tightening. And clearly, from the chart, it did not cause a 25% decrease in M1.
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President Donald Trump has railed repeatedly about the Federal Reserve's "quantitative tightening" and the impact it has had on economic growth during his administration. The program will be over soon, which may not bring as much relief as Trump thinks.
That's still irrelevant, and you're splitting hairs. The massive vertical increase in the M1 in 2020 was a direct result of the COVID stimulus supported by BOTH parties. It wasn't a Trump policy issue - it was a reaction. Arguments can be made that the amount of stimulus was unwarranted, but that's not on Trump alone, but on DC in general.
Biden's recent attempts at Build Back Better have nothing to do with COVID response, and is a continuation of the spending sprees begun under Obama.
In short, this administration is doing NOTHING to address the massive increase in the money supply that is the driving force behind the inflation we are seeing today.
THAT is the takeaway from this chart. Everything else is noise.
Edit: I wasn't aware of the redefining of M1 in 2020 as referenced in the post above. That would definitely impact the chart as well.
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