CNN said it included “hard money held by banks, businesses, investors and ordinary people.”
Hard money often refers to coin money, with soft money being paper money.
From $783 billion back in 2006, the amount of US dollars circulating in the world reached $1.46 trillion in 2016, according to a study that served as a reference for the San Francisco Fed.
Another study, this time conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, reckoned that more of these dollars are held by people