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The difference between the various "Mnumber" values for money supply can be affected by where you put it, though.

Actually you can remove money from circulation by buying T-bills from the fed.

No, because the money goes to whoever sold you the tbills. This may or may not be the Treasury.

I think he is talking about quantitative tightening.

If you're buying them from the fed, then the fed sold you the tbills.

Well, you can certainly withdraw cash and stash it in your bed, pillow or mattress at home.

Yeah, and at the margin all it does is it incurs a small cost at the bill printing facility. Nothing else changes, since the central banks can and will freely convert base digital money into bills, without limit.

You can, but that is just a receipt for a part of a deposit held by whoever issues the notes.

It's not actually the money...

Obligatory mention of the KLF burning a million pounds (for those who are unaware):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Qu...

Because their publicity is more important than feeding the hungry.