The Bank of England has been focusing on an underlying measure of broad money, which excludes holdings by specialist financial firms.

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America's measure of broad money rose by only 1.6% in the year to April, and fell slightly in the second half of that period.

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And with a dollarized monetary regime, the M3 measure of broad money would soar from its current anemic annual growth rate of about 6% to between 20% and 30%.

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The velocity of the M2 stock, a broad measure of money, is currently around 1.6, the lowest ever recorded by the Federal Reserve.

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In Britain, for example, despite continued quantitative easing, the broad measure of money supply fell by 4.1% in the year to August.

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In the year to December, the broad measure of money supply fell by 0.2% in the euro zone and grew by just 3.4% in America.

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For a long time, even as the Federal Reserve pushed short term interest rates to very low levels, the broad measure of money, M2, grew only around 5 percent per year.

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The broad M2 measure of money supply grew by 19.7%, exceeding the official target of 17%.

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