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Strategies & Market Trends : US Economic Trend Analysis

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To: gpowell who wrote (1)6/2/2006 3:31:35 PM
From: gpowell of 97
 
The late 19th century American economist, F.A. Walker, defined money with the phrase, “money is that money does.” This phrase illustrates that there is no “a priori” definition of what should, or could, be money.

Alan Greenspan on the definition of money (February 1999): “I must say that I have not changed my view that inflation is fundamentally a monetary phenomenon. But I am becoming far more skeptical that we can define a proxy that actually captures what money is, either in terms of transaction balances or those elements in the economic decisionmaking process which represent money. We are struggling here. I think we have to be careful not to assume by definition that M1, M2, or M3 or anything is money. They are all proxies for the underlying conceptual variable that we all employ in our generic evaluation of the impact of money on the economy.”
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