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Measure of the U.S. money stock that consists of M1, certain overnight repurchase agreements and certain overnight Eurodollars, savings deposits including money market deposit accounts, time deposits in amounts of less than $100,000, and balances in money market mutual funds other than those restricted to institutional investors.

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