Liquidity

Three measures of how much money and credit is in the US system: the money stock, what the Fed holds, and what banks have lent or invested.

Fed balance sheet, total assets

WALCL, $ trillions, Wednesday level; one point a week

as of 21 Oct

23 Oct 2024 to 21 Oct 2026: ▼ -3.9% · 105 weeks

Source. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, H.4.1 Factors Affecting Reserve Balances, via FRED (WALCL).

Published. Weekly, each Thursday at 4:30pm ET, for the Wednesday before.

The three series

M2 money supplyM2SL812 months from Jan 1959Monthly, about four weeks after the month ends: a month's figure is dated the 1st and published late the next month.

Fed balance sheet, total assetsWALCL1,245 weeks from 18 Dec 2002Weekly, each Thursday at 4:30pm ET, for the Wednesday before.

Bank credit, all commercial banksTOTBKCR2,807 weeks from 3 Jan 1973Weekly, each Friday at 4:15pm ET, for the Wednesday of the week before (nine days on).

A monthly figure is dated by its month; a weekly figure by its Wednesday. The date shown is the period the figure is for, never when it was fetched. This product uses the FRED® API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.