Fed's balance sheet vs the ECB's balance sheet, who's winning the race?
|ECB balance sheet discussion
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As of November 19, the ECB's balance sheet reached €8.44 trillion.
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Converted to US dollars that's $9.52 trillion.
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Pre-Covid, the ECB's balance sheet was €4.70 Trillion.
Fed's balance sheet
Fed balance sheet discussion
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As of November 24, the Fed's Balance Sheet totaled $8.68 trillion.
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Starting April 2021 the Fed was simultaneously doing QE (Balance Sheet Expansion) and Reverse Repos (Balance Sheet Contraction)
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The current weekly average in Reverse Repos is $1.55 trillion effectively making the true balance sheet total $7.13 trillion.
ECB vs Fed balance sheet comparison
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ECB: €8.44 trillion, $9.52 trillion.
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Fed: $7.13 trillion.
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ECB Expansion Since Start of Pandemic: €3.74 trillion, $4.22 trillion.
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Fed Expansion Since Start of Pandemic: $2.97 trillion.
What About Japan and China?
The above numbers from Yardeni are a bit stale and do not account for reverse repos.
Nonetheless, the chart displays an important idea.
Grand Total, FED, ECB, BOJ, PBOC
Combined QE total
Given the numbers are a bit stale, it's safe to say the combined QE total is now well over $31 trillion.
Congrats Central Bankers!
And also factor in trillions of dollars of stimulus in the US, unknown amounts elsewhere, and a huge supply chain mess everywhere.
Inflation
Add it all up and you get inflation.
So why was the price of Thanksgiving up?
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