M2 Expansion: The only chart that matters 😲
What do we use to measure the price of everything — from groceries to financial assets? Fiat currencies like the dollar or euro. But using them as a measuring stick hides a key flaw: the yardstick keeps shrinking 📉
📊 M2 measures the total supply of money — cash, bank deposits, and other liquid assets. And it expands constantly. This is not accidental. It’s central bank policy: increase the money supply, dilute the value of money, increase the prices of assets, and keep the system running on cheap debt.
As supply grows, the purchasing power of each dollar drops. Over time, fiat becomes a poor store of value by design. No unbacked currency in history has held value indefinitely — and today’s are no exception.
🌉 This is why I don’t hold long-term wealth in fiat. The only way to outperform systemic devaluation is to move into scarce, independent assets that aren’t tied to a money printer. That’s the whole strategy.