Reply To: Chart showing a correlation between the TMS and inflation

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jmherbener
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Like any other price, the purchasing power of money (which is the inverse of the prices of goods and services) depends on both demand and supply. Changes in the money stock and the demand to hold money determine changes in the purchasing power of money (which is the inverse of price inflation-deflation).

Here is a discussion of the TMS including links to a few charts:

http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/True_Money_Supply

Here is one of the TMS charts:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelpollaro/2014/11/16/the-u-s-money-supply-decelerates-in-october-the-risk-of-an-economic-bust-just-went-up/

Here are more charts:

https://mises.org/markets-and-data

The BLS began to compute gross output in 2014. Its series only goes back to 2012:

http://www.bea.gov/iTable/iTable.cfm?ReqID=51&step=1#reqid=51&step=51&isuri=1&5114=q&5102=15