Despite losing $235 billion, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell somehow still has a job—for now. His mismanagement of the ...

The Asset/Liability Mismatch grew as the Fed resumed their purchases of long Treasury securities and MBS during the pandemic induced renewal of QE, which expanded their balance sheet to almost $9. ...

A good place to start is the Fed’s balance sheet, which is published weekly: Table 5: Consolidated Statement of Condition of All Federal Reserve Banks.* Here, the consolidated assets and liabilities ...

One concern is that most of the Fed’s assets, which back up the monetary liabilities that form the basis of our money, come in the form of U.S. government debt. The Fed can sell these assets if ...

The U.S. government’s debt is not a cause for concern, as it is self-funded and the Federal Reserve can always step in to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ben Bernanke’s Friday speech, on the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet, has got us thinking. According to ...

Like the balance sheets that record a company’s assets and liabilities, the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet also keeps track of assets and liabilities, but they are a little different from ...

If those rates rise, the Fed would suffer “losses” due to paying higher rates on its liabilities than it receives on its assets, again putting the central bank in a difficult political position.

Currency in circulation, once the Fed's dominant liability, now comprises just 35% of assets due to the post-2008 quantitative easing expansion. Click here for a full analysis.

European Central Bank Assets/Liabilities: Dollar deposits/Euro deposits Federal Reserve Because this swap is between central banks, we can ignore counterparty risk.

The Board of Governors reports the consolidated balance sheet of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks in its H.4.1 “Factors Affecting Reserve Balances” release. Table 5 of that release includes the sum of all ...