A decline in debt growth begins in 1986:
Graph #3: Beginning in 1986 there was a strikingly unusual fall in the growth of total debt that lasted into the early 1990s. |
An increase in money growth soon follows:
Graph #4: Before that decline of debt growth had ended, an increase in the growth of circulating money was under way. This increase lasted to the mid-1990s. |
These patterns shift the "debt per dollar" ratio, 1990-94:
In response, best-case GDP improves almost immediately:
Graph #6: Potential GDP shows a full percentage point improvement between 1993 and 2000, in response to the reduced ratio of accumulated debt to circulating money. |
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Under the heading Why is the Money Supply Important? at EconLib, Anna J. Schwartz writes:
"Because money is used in virtually all economic transactions, it has a powerful effect on economic activity."
If anyone would know, Schwartz would know.
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