Vital Signs Chart: Fed’s Balance Sheet Expands

How big will it grow? Word is over $4 trillion before they are done with all of the QE's....not sure that is where we should be headed!

 

The Federal Reserve’s balance sheet continues to expand as the central bank prepares to tweak its bond-buying program at a two-day meeting starting today.

The Fed’s asset holdings reached$2.86 trillion in the week ended Dec. 5, up from $2.85 trillion a week earlier.

Among the holdings are $1.65 trillion in U.S. Treasury’s and $884 billion in mortgage-backed securities.

 

 

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2012/12/11/vital-signs-chart-feds-balance-sheet-expands/?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines