The “True” Money Supply: A Measure of the Supply of the Medium of Exchange in the U.S. Economy

07/30/2014 Austrian Economics Newsletter Joseph T. Salerno

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Volume 6, Number 4 (Spring 1987)

Joseph T. Salerno discusses measuring the money supply of the U.S. economy.

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