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Mar 7, 2024 · Table 5 presents the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve System. The first page of table 5 presents the assets held by the Federal Reserve. The assets listed largely parallel the factors supplying reserve balances from table 1. The second page presents the liabilities of the Federal Reserve.
- The Balance Sheet of the Federal Reserve Bank. Like any balance sheet, the Fed's shows its assets and liabilities. The Fed discloses it weekly in Table 5 of its H.4.1 report.
- The Fed's Assets. Anything the Federal Reserve buys is an asset. Since the Federal Reserve has an unlimited supply of currency for asset purchases, the size of its balance sheet is constrained primarily by the availability of eligible assets as well as practical considerations of politics and policy.
- The Fed's Liabilities. Currency in circulation, including a significant proportion in use overseas as well as any dollar bills in your pocket, was historically the largest Federal Reserve liability, until it was surpassed in 2010 by bank reserves on deposit with the Fed.
- The Fed's Balance Sheet Expansion. Quantitative easing (QE), or large scale asset purchases were first used by the Fed in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis to address the zero lower bound problem, which is what happens when a central bank drops short-term rates to zero but the economy fails to return to its expected growth trajectory.
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis's Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) program are working together to expand options for finding, accessing, and visualizing data from the Board's Data Download Program (DDP) in FRED.
For the first three months of 2021, on net, reserve balances rose about $950 billion to stand at nearly $4.1 trillion on September 29, 2021. Reserve balances as a share of Federal Reserve liabilities stood at roughly 50 percent (and about 18 percent as a ratio of nominal GDP).
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May 2, 2024 · The Fed’s balance sheet is a financial statement updated weekly that shows what the U.S. central bank owes and owns. More officially, it’s the Fed’s H.4.1 statement. It’s not dissimilar...
The balance sheet, form FR 34, shows in detail the assets, liabilities, and capital accounts of the Federal Reserve Banks and certain additional information such as U.S. Government deposits with special depositaries, collateral and custodies held, classifications of "Other deposits—Miscellaneous," and certain memorandum accounts.
