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The title is false.

They stopped publishing WM1NS, the weekly, non-seasonally adjusted version.

They still publish https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL, the monthly, seasonally adjusted version.

One could perhaps hold a theory about how the seasonal adjustment (or monthly smoothing?) occlude some important dynamics. But the headline as-written ("Fed has stopped publishing the M1 money stock data") is not true.

Is this nefarious, negligence, or something else?

I thought M2 (velocity) was what mattered in most contemporary inflation measurements, but I can't pretend I understand MMT. Anyone feel like explaining to a layman what's going on here?

What does this even mean for whoever is not educated in this area?