Comment on How much money's out there?
marcos@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The amount changes all the time, and depends on what you define “money” as.
Almost every country (every one on the WTO) publishes monthly volumes. Here’s the one for the US if you consider that money is cash and the contents of all the bank accounts:
fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL
That “M1” is a standard definition, that is easy to search for any country.
If you start to add things like credit card balances and government papers that can be used in most large transaction, you arrive at the other definitions. There’s a wiki page for them:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply
The M1 to M3 set is an international standard, but many countries add other definitions to their publications.