The Fed recently announced a further reduction in the balance sheet runoff from $25B a month to $5B a month. Read more here.

Whenever a demagogue wants to whip up hysteria about federal budget deficits, he or she invariably begins with an analogy to a household’s budget: “No household can continually spend more than ...

The Federal Reserve reached a major milestone last week after the campaign to reduce the total assets held on its balance sheet hit the $1 trillion mark. The Fed now has total assets of $7.96 ...

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The Federal Reserve began increasing its balance sheet after the 2008 financial crisis ... will become so expensive that Draconian budget cuts to infrastructure, defense, Social Security and ...

Several conservative lawmakers say House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has promised a House vote on a balanced federal ... the budget in 10 years without raising taxes. Chart showing that to balance ...

Here, I show an update of the weekly Federal Reserve balance sheet charts for 24/6/11. In addition, given that the dollar index is ever-so-close to making a higher short-term high, I thought I’d ...

The Federal ... s balance-sheet swelled from about $900bn on the eve of the financial crisis to about $4.5trn by 2015 as it bought mortgage-backed securities and government debt (see chart).