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ECB Calls Bernanke's Bluff

To JasonC:
US M1 is not a reliable measure of the money supply as it only sums cash and demand accounts. US M3 is the measure that sums ALL shortly available payment instruments. Why then did the FED stop publishing this measure in March 2006? Can you give us the result of the "inflation identity" measuring the rate of inflation since 2003 (Inflation (%P) is equal to the rate of money growth (%M3), plus the change in velocity (%V), minus the rate of output growth (%Y))?

ECB Calls Bernanke's Bluff

"..Bernanke and his boss, Treasury chief Henry Paulson.." Yes one wonders about the independence of the FED. The huge monetary creation and lack of oversight of the past years by the FED was an easy way to finance the gigantic US budget deficits brought about by useless and ruinous internal and international policies.