Lots of economic reports and data releases get plenty of attention: job numbers, inflation data, retail spending. But some economic releases go all but unnoticed. One of those is the money supply — ...

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Although M2 money supply recently notched a fresh all-time high, the expansion of M2 hasn't been able to keep pace with Wall ...

For more than a century, no asset class has come remotely close to matching the average annual return of stocks. But this doesn't mean Wall Street's major stock indexes move from point A to point B in ...

Recently, some economic commentators have noted that the U.S. money supply — the number of dollars in the economy — is doing something that it has not done in a very long time. “U.S. money supply is ...

Investors occasionally rely on economic data points and forecasting tools to determine which direction stocks will head next. For only the fifth time since 1870, M2 money supply declined by at least 2 ...

Even though no metric can guarantee short-term directional moves for the Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq Composite, a few indicators have phenomenal track records of forecasting big moves in the stock market ...

U.S money supply exploded during the pandemic as the government doled out trillions of dollars in stimulus. Those payments helped keep the economy afloat during a difficult time, but many economists ...