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

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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
00:00 Intro
00:36 Used to be hard to find this data...
01:14 Log scale
01:39 What is the Fed's balance sheet?
04:42 What kind of assets do they buy with printed money?
07:01 What about gold?
08:15 History of Fed balance sheet
17:25 Removing money... until last two weeks
20:20 Exponential regression trendline (96% R-squared)
25:20 1-sigma percentile trendlines
26:70 2-sigma percentile trendlines
28:24 All-time compound annual (exponential) growth figures

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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