👀 :thisisfinefire: "The US has about $2 trillion of physical currency in circulation, half of it held abroad. Total US bank deposits are around $17 trillion. Meanwhile, total wealth in the US is around $149 trillion, more than 63 times the total available cash. The gaps between these numbers are like dark matter in the universe — we don’t have a way to empirically account for it, and yet without it our understanding of the universe, or the economy, would collapse."