The Cards
Every data card we post carries the money2069.org mark — so every one of them is archived here, next to the post it shipped in. The site the cards point to should hold the cards. Receipts, not claims.
"By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens." Keynes wrote that in 1919. The case for printing has always known what printing does. His page in the reply.
In 1920 Irving Fisher noted we had standardized "all the units of commerce except the dollar." The yardstick, the pound, the volt: all fixed. The unit your salary is paid in: still elastic. A century later that work is still open. His full case in the reply.
Argentina's money supply grew 15% in the year to May 2025, its latest IMF data. Since 2005 the peso has lost 99.9% of its purchasing power. Check the numbers yourself: money2069.org/currencies/argentine-peso
"Money has not been generated by law. In its origin it is a social, and not a state institution." — Carl Menger, 1892. money2069.org/people/carl-menger
$100 from 2005 buys $31 of the same things today. Measured purely by how much the money supply grew, the US dollar has quietly lost 69% of its purchasing power. Nobody voted on that. Hello, LinkedIn. We are Money2069. We track the money supply of 138 currencies, every day, and publish what the printing does to the money in your pocket. No forecasts, no hot takes, no fear. Receipts. A few of them, straight from our tracker: • Türkiye's lira buys 1% of what it did in 2005. • Argentina's peso has lost 99.9% over the same stretch. • Global M2 money supply now stands at $134.6 trillion, up 313% since 2005. • Even the "strong" currencies printed hard: US M2 up 226% in 20 years, the euro up 146%. Every number we publish carries its source and its as-of date. When we cannot verify a figure, we do not post it. Why this matters: money printing is a quiet tax. When the supply of money grows faster than the economy, purchasing power moves from the people who save it to whoever stands closest to the printer. Most people feel it at the grocery store years before anyone explains it to them. So we built the explanation, in public: • A live debasement tracker for 138 currencies • A calculator that shows what your own money lost since any year you pick • The thinkers who saw it coming, from Carl Menger to the present • Honest, methodology-first ratings of projects trying to build sounder money Do not take our word for any of it. Pick your currency, run your birth year, check our math: money2069.org/currencies We will be posting the receipts here regularly. Follow along.
