Velocity Of Money – Charts Updated Through April 30, 2014

Here are three charts from the St. Louis Fed depicting the velocity of money in terms of the MZM, M1 and M2 money supply measures.

All charts reflect quarterly data through the 1st quarter of 2014, and were last updated as of April 30, 2014.  As one can see, two of the three measures are at all-time lows for the periods depicted:

Velocity of MZM Money Stock, current value = 1.39 :

Data Source: FRED, Federal Reserve Economic Data, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; accessed April 30, 2014:

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/MZMV

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Velocity of M1 Money Stock, current value = 6.323 :

Data Source: FRED, Federal Reserve Economic Data, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; accessed April 30, 2014:

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M1V

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Velocity of M2 Money Stock, current value = 1.545 :

Data Source: FRED, Federal Reserve Economic Data, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; accessed April 30, 2014:

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M2V

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The Special Note summarizes my overall thoughts about our economic situation

SPX at 1880.82 as this post is written