{"id":673088,"date":"2010-02-23T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"e2249889-c78b-43e3-9643-b1d7d4aa587b:399385"},"modified":"2010-02-23T08:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T13:15:00","slug":"dont-worry-about-m2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/673088","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t worry about M2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Worried that slowing growth in U.S. money supply (M2) is a sign of economic trouble? Don\u2019t be. Most of the weakness can be traced to retail money market funds.<\/p>\n<p>Money market funds generally make up 13% of M2, according to St\u00e9fane Marion of National Bank Financial.<\/p>\n<p>The economist notes that investors have grown more confident in recent months, opting to reduce their holdings of money market mutual funds by a near record amount.<\/p>\n<p>Excluding that component, M2 is actually growing at a 6% annual clip. \u201cThis is actually pretty robust growth when compared to previous recoveries,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/NP\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=399385\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worried that slowing growth in U.S. money supply (M2) is a sign of economic trouble? Don\u2019t be. Most of the weakness can be traced to retail money market funds. Money market funds generally make up 13% of M2, according to St\u00e9fane Marion of National Bank Financial. The economist notes that investors have grown more confident [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2570,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2P6g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2570"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}