The Disappearing Money Multiplier

I caught this over on Greg Mankiw blog. I am a professor of economics at Harvard University. You can visit his blog and bookmark it by following the link.

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clipped from gregmankiw.blogspot.com Econ prof Bill Seyfried of Rollins College emails me: Here's an interesting fact that you may not have seen yet. The M1 money multiplier just slipped below 1. So each $1 increase in reserves (monetary base) results in the money supply increasing by $0.95 (OK, so banks have substantially increased their holding of excess reserves while the M1 money supply hasn't changed by much). Thanks.