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Meijer Stops Accepting Cash As Nationwide Coin Shortage Erupts
Or, this is what happens when you print more electronic money than you have circulating in the M1 money supply.
Fed Chair Powell admitted to lawmakers last week that The Fed has been rationing coins as the circulation of coins across the US economy ground to a halt due to the pandemic.
"What's happened is that with the partial closure of the economy, the flow of coins through the economy ... it's kind of stopped," Powell told lawmakers.
He said the shortage was due to the mass business closures that prevented people from spending their coins, as well as a lack of places that are open where people can trade coins for paper bills.
Or, this is what happens when you print more electronic money than you have circulating in the M1 money supply.