Source:
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
 

Release:
Money Velocity

Units: 

Ratio, Seasonally Adjusted

Frequency: 


Quarterly

Notes:

Calculated as the ratio of quarterly nominal GDP
to the quarterly average of M2 money stock.

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 transactions are occurring between individuals in an economy.
The frequency of currency exchange can be used to determine the velocity of a given component of the money supply, providing some insight into whether consumers and businesses are saving or spending their money. There are several components of the money supply,: M1, M2, and MZM (M3 is no longer