What is the M1 Money Supply and its components?

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Prerequisites: currency, demand deposits, other checkable deposits

Over the last few posts I’ve looked at various forms of money: currency, demand deposits, other checkable deposits. If you add them all up they total one measure of the total supply of money known as M1.

The following chart shows M1 and its components for a particular point in time.

Written on August 12, 2016