Quarterly
Ratio
1959 - 2020
Jan 1, 1959 to Oct 1, 2020
FRED
3 weeks ago
RecentJul 30, 2026
This series has been discontinued and will no longer be updated. The institutional money market funds component (IMFSL (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IMFSL)) used to calculate MZM has been discontinued by the Board of Governors and is no longer available in the H.6 statistical release, Money Stock Measures. For further information about the changes to the H.6 statistical release, please see the announcements (https://www.federalreserve.gov/feeds/h6.html) provided by the source. Calculated as the ratio of quarterly nominal GDP (GDP (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDP)) to the quarterly average of MZM money stock (MZMSL (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MZMSL)). The velocity of money is the frequency at which one unit of currency is used to purchase domestically- produced goods and services within a given time period. In other words, it is the number of times one dollar is spent to buy goods and services per unit of time. If the velocity of money is increasing, then more
As of October 1, 2020 • Q data • Source: FRED
This dataset contains 248 quarterly observations, over 61 years, 9 months, updated quarterly from FRED. View Methodology
Data Points
248
Coverage
61 years, 9 months
Updates
quarterly
This dataset's metadata was updated on 8/6/2026. The current data may be outdated.