As to those more important twelve-month rate of change metrics, despite its recent weakness, uncovered money substitutes are still growing at a relatively robust rate of 8.5%.

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No amount of quibbling over the these metrics closes this gap enough to change the conclusion.

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In many of your metrics revenue, new users, time spent using your product the rate of change can be more important than the metric itself.

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