Thursday, July 17, 2025

My Favorite Chart -- Money Market Funds -- July 17, 2025

Locator: 48762MMFS.

Gartner hype "loop": link here.

Is anyoe paying attention?

Read this post first, the #1 post based on number of view pages (trending): link here.


 But look at this:

Blow-up:

ChatGPT: this was my prompt today. 

Assets in US money market funds hit a new high this past month, now trending toward $8 trillion when we were sitting at $5 trillion in 2020. The US equity markets are trading near all-time highs. Schwab says a lot of this is due to record margin trading. Where do you think all tis money is coming from?