CHAPTER 16
The Money Supply Process
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Desired Reserves
Ratio, r
Currency Ratio, c
0.40
0.08
End of
Final Banking
Crisis
0.35
0.07
0.30
0.06
0.25
0.05
c
0.20
0.04
0.15
0.03
Start of
First Banking
Crisis
0.10
0.02
r
0.05
0.01
0.0
0.0
1929
1930
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1931
1932
1933
Desired Reserves Ratio and Currency Ratio, 1929 1933
Source: Federal Reserve Bulletin; Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz, A Monetary History
of the United States, 1867 1960 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1963), p. 333.
Money Supply
(US$ billions)
29
28
27
26
25
24
M1
23
22
Start of
First Banking
Crisis
21
20
19
9
End of
Final Banking
Crisis
Monetary Base
8
7
6
0
1929
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1930
1931
1932
1933
M1 and the Monetary Base, 1929 1933
Source: Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz, A Monetary History of the United States,
1867 1960 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1963), p. 333.