Let 'er rip, tater chip...

[Jolly]

If that's what it takes to make the Washington idiots financially responsible...

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/debt-ceiling-fight-may-cause-financial-collapse-greece-and-lead-major-violence

[taiwan_girl]

I thought this was interesting. I believe that @jon-nyc spoke about this before.

"Eighty-five percent of all of the dollars in circulation have been created in the last 15 years. And it's purely to fund federal deficits, ..."

[Axtremus]

@taiwan_girl , your chart stops at 2012.
Try this: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGMBASE

The St. Louis fed chart has data up to the last quarter.

Spoiler alert: the line goes up a lot more after 2012.

[jon-nyc]

That graph stops a decade ago, tg. The reality is much worse.

Three years ago this month, the fed quadrupled the money supply in a single month.

[LuFins Dad]

And seeing as how the dollar is the highest traded currency in the world at close to 3 trillion dollars per day, maybe US fiscal policy has a bigger effect on the rest of the world than previously suspected?

[jon-nyc]

US monetary policy certainly does.

[Jolly]

Hard to buy votes when you run out of money.

[taiwan_girl]

@Axtremus @jon-nyc

Yes, that is the chart I remember. Thanks!!!