Is there a method?

[flw]

Is there a method for measuring or monitoring currency flow within an exchange system

Comments

[sanpaku]

I think the concept you're looking for is described in the aggregate as M2 in the money supply. There's also a notion of "monetary flow," although I don't think it's precisely what you're talking about. To the extent that there are "blockages" those would theoretically be reflected in prices. I think?

[flw]

Yes. In their way of thinking, eventually, all things come to serve the market and the rise and fall of pricing naturally comes to determine our true values. But natural systems don't really respond to markets the way we wish they would. And it really looks like the "Carbon Cycle" is going to rear its ugly head and do... billion year damage to our precious "free market." It took BILLIONS of years for algae in the sea transform the atmosphere into something we can breathe. This is conceivably an end to all life on the land type event we are facing for all we know. This is a "you can't breathe your Apple stock," type of situation I am talking about

[sanpaku]

I wish I could disagree.

[alsoname]

This turns into a general tally of who is "trustworthy" and who is not. It is a kind of currency, but it is not discrete or measurable in any way.

Nerds call it "social capital."