PE46: Fed printing... how much money? 108 year history... (I) from Crypto Voices

PE46: Fed printing... how much money? 108 year history... (I)

32 minutes Posted Mar 24, 2023 at 3:42 pm.

Intro

Used to be hard to find this data...

Log scale

What is the Fed's balance sheet?

What kind of assets do they buy with printed money?

What about gold?

History of Fed balance sheet

Removing money... until last two weeks

Exponential regression trendline (96% R-squared)

1-sigma percentile trendlines

2-sigma percentile trendlines

All-time compound annual (exponential) growth figures

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This is the forty-sixth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.

Contents

Here we look at a 108 year, 5,654 week history of the Federal Reserve and its balance sheet. How fast does it grow, what is its trendline? What is a taper tantrum? How are they treating the banks?

Coefficients:

y = a * EXP (b * x)

y = y-intercept * EXP (slope * x)

y = 2.26 * EXP (0.13% * x)

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