Federal Reserve

Total Federal Reserve balance sheet assets for the week of June 17 of $2,053 billion.

The chart below indicates the Fed's YTD open market treasury purchases. Roughly $32 billion in bonds/bills has been bought since the last update 2 weeks ago. The chart below can be traced back the Federal Reserve of New York's website here.

The chart below indicates the Fed's YTD open market treasury purchases. Roughly $32 billion in bonds/bills has been bought since the last update 2 weeks ago. The chart below can be traced back the Federal Reserve of New York's website here.

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Note: this analysis does not include $153 billion in various (presumably non counterfeit) bearer bonds that the Federal reserve will now never be able to monetize.

Total Federal Reserve balance sheet assets for the week of June 3 of $2,067 billion consisting of:

Note: this analysis does not include $153 billion in various (presumably non counterfeit) bearer bonds that the Federal reserve will now never be able to monetize.

Total Federal Reserve balance sheet assets for the week of June 3 of $2,067 billion consisting of:

Note: this analysis does not include $153 billion in various (presumably non counterfeit) bearer bonds that the Federal reserve will now never be able to monetize.

Total Federal Reserve balance sheet assets for the week of June 3 of $2,067 billion consisting of:

Developing Story from Bloomberg.

Please, please, please let Maxine Waters do the interrogation.

More from the WSJ:

Total Federal Reserve balance sheet assets for the week of June 3 of $2,065 billion consisting of:

Total Federal Reserve balance sheet assets for the week of June 3 of $2,065 billion consisting of:

Total Federal Reserve balance sheet assets for the week of June 3 of $2,065 billion consisting of:

By initiating another weekly update column, Zero Hedge will start tracking the massively growing balance sheet of the Federal Reserve, aka the real financial black hole. At this point, when the Federal Reserve (beholden to nobody except Ben Bernanke) has taken effective control over treasury and agency purchases, as well as the financial, insurance, commercial real estate and automotive industries, this is in essence the only relevant balance sheet in the entire United States, and possibly the entire formerly capitalist world.

By initiating another weekly update column, Zero Hedge will start tracking the massively growing balance sheet of the Federal Reserve, aka the real financial black hole. At this point, when the Federal Reserve (beholden to nobody except Ben Bernanke) has taken effective control over treasury and agency purchases, as well as the financial, insurance, commercial real estate and automotive industries, this is in essence the only relevant balance sheet in the entire United States, and possibly the entire formerly capitalist world.

By initiating another weekly update column, Zero Hedge will start tracking the massively growing balance sheet of the Federal Reserve, aka the real financial black hole. At this point, when the Federal Reserve (beholden to nobody except Ben Bernanke) has taken effective control over treasury and agency purchases, as well as the financial, insurance, commercial real estate and automotive industries, this is in essence the only relevant balance sheet in the entire United States, and possibly the entire formerly capitalist world.

As recently many questions have arisen as to the involvement of the Federal Reserve in bond (and other) markets, I present the data provided by the Federal Reserve of New York regarding the Fed's Open Market Operations. The charts below summarize the individual (single-serving if you will) and cumulative purchases across both Treasuries and Agencies. In a nutshell, for 2009, the Fed has purchased $131 billion Treasuries and $63.8 billion Agencies.