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Use Currencies, Commodities to Hedge Inflation

Can someone knowlegable help? The article cites M1 statistics from shadowstats to show the explosion of money supply in the past 12 months. It is my understanding that the Federal Reserve "prints" money primarily through their open market activity involving Treasury debt, repos and reverse-repos and that these instruments aren't included in M1. They were included in M3 (now only privately estimated) but the chart offered shows M3 falling the past 12 months. Can anyone sort this out for me? Muchas Gracias.