US Dollar Security
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See a complete dossier: Taiwan Strait Pressure →The dollar's power as an instrument of statecraft rests on trust in the currency itself. These are the structural numbers underneath that trust — money created, value retained, and how much currency now sits on top of the real economy — drawn straight from Federal Reserve data and shown without the jargon.
A dollar saved in 1971 — when the US cut the last tie to gold — buys about 12 cents' worth of goods today. The rest quietly evaporated.
Purchasing power of one dollar, tracked against consumer prices (FRED: CPIAUCSL). Down and to the right is the erosion.
Of every dollar in the M2 money supply today, roughly 33% was created since the start of 2020 — the stock went from $15.4T to $23.1T.
M2 money supply (FRED: M2SL). Shaded: the money created from 2020 onward. Uses M2, not the M1 figure behind the viral '40%' stat, which was inflated by a 2020 accounting change.
There are now about 70 cents of money supply for every dollar of goods and services the economy produces in a year — up from roughly 56 cents in 1970.
M2 divided by GDP (FRED: M2SL ÷ GDP). More money stacked on the same output is the pressure the dollar has to absorb.
Each dollar now changes hands about 1.4 times a year, down from 2.2× at its peak. Slower money is why all that printing didn't detonate prices — but it means the system is absorbing, not using, the extra dollars.
M2 velocity (FRED: M2V). The context chart: it's why this is a slow-burning risk, not an overnight one.
Source: Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED), St. Louis Fed — public series, refreshed weekly. Next layer: reserve-currency share (IMF COFER), central-bank gold buying (World Gold Council), and foreign Treasury holdings (US Treasury TIC) — the de-dollarization side of the ledger.
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