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I'm not an economic expert, but the rate at which new money was created in 2020 & 2021 is frightening: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL

That M1 discontinuity at least has an explanation:

Still a lot of money being printed, but not 10s of Trillions.

Maybe 1/4th of that is regulation changes on m1 versus m2 holdings, so just banks moving money around. But yes, they printed a crap ton of money.