The latest balance sheet figures show the total at 8.22T, up 143B from the prior month end, but down in the past week by 19B. The chart below shows how the Fed Balance sheet has grown by instrument over the last 18 months. The major surge from COVID can be clearly seen as 2.5T ...
the balance sheet expanded by only $2B, thoughit did reach an all-time highmid-month. The drop to close out the month came as a result of $15B in mortgage-backed securities rolling off in the latest week.
According to the FRED chart below, the US debt to GDP ratio in 1982 was around 35%. Today it is more than three and a half times higher, at 125%. This severely limits how much and how quickly the Fed can raise interest rates, due to the amount of interest that the federal governmen...
This has been in the works for a while and has come out in bits and pieces, but today the Fed made it official in the FOMC meeting minutes: It doesn’t know how far it can take QT without blowing up stuff, but it wants to reduce its balance she...
Your language of the base is different than the language everyone else uses: the balance sheet. People still assume that a large balance sheet means loose money. They don’t distinguish how a large balance sheet may be necessary for appropriate funding of the financial system (George Selgin an...
BTC/USD daily price chart vs. U.S. dollar liquidity. Source: TradingView Thedebt ceiling representsthe maximum amount of money the U.S. government can borrow to pay its bills. Related:Fed balance sheet adds $393B in two weeks — Will this send Bitcoin price to $40K?
Commentary Next to Arrows Has Been Added by Wall Street On Parade. By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: October 21, 2024 ~ According to its own FRED data, the
“The New Road to Serfdom: An illustrated guide to the coming real estate collapse,” was the first major national article forecasting – in precise chart form – the bursting of the real estate bubble and its consequences for homeowners and state and local government solvency.[1] The November...
The chart has to continue continuously upward. The currency is continuing to flow as a river, its distributed and everyone makes their monthly payments. Next year “5G” will kick in and computers will increase in capacity 100 FOLD . Our Dooley elected and dearly beloved DONALD JOHN TRUMP ...
Tim Duy: Fed's Preferred Inflation Measure Dives, by Tim Duy: Not only is core-PCE inflation on a year-over-year basis trending away from the Fed's target: but the deceleration in recent months is truly shocking: It is hard to see how the Fed can be confident that inflation with ...