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.

M2 money supply

M2SL, $ trillions, seasonally adjusted; one point a month

as of Aug 2026

Aug 2024 to Aug 2026: ▲ +10.1% · 25 months

Source. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, H.6 Money Stock Measures, via FRED (M2SL).

Published. Monthly, about four weeks after the month ends: a month's figure is dated the 1st and published late the next month.

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.