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Broad Money

A measure of the money supply. Broad money is a measure of the total amount of money held by households and companies in the economy.

Broad money is made up mainly of commercial bank deposits — which are essentially IOUs from commercial banks to households and companies — and currency — mostly IOUs from the central bank.