Fed Balance Sheet
Total Federal Reserve assets — monetization of debt through asset purchases suppresses yields.
$6.7T
Trend YoY growth is +3.1%, slowing by 0.9 pp/year over the last 23Y. Deviations have remained below trend for 51 consecutive periods. Latest: +2.2%, 0.9 pp below trend, a 0.05σ deviation. The latest YoY reading is boosted by 11.4 pp due to an easy comparison base from Jul 30.
Level
YoY %
y = 23.1% − 0.9 pp/yr · t
Deviation from trend
Forecast
Projected value by forecast vintage ($M)
Projected value ($M)
| Forecast made in | Jan '26 | Feb '26 | Mar '26 | Apr '26 | May '26 | Jun '26 | Jul '26 | Aug '26 | Sep '26 | Oct '26 | Nov '26 | Dec '26 | Jan '27 | Feb '27 | Mar '27 | Apr '27 | May '27 | Jun '27 | Jul '27 | Aug '27 | Sep '27 | MAPE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan '26 | $6.6T | $6.5T | $6.5T | $6.5T | $6.6T | $6.6T | $6.6T | $6.6T | $6.7T | $6.7T | $6.7T | $6.8T | $6.8T | $6.9T | $6.9T | $7.0T | $7.1T | $7.2T | $7.2T | $7.2T | $7.2T | 394% |
| Feb '26 | $6.6T | $6.6T | $6.6T | $6.6T | $6.6T | $6.6T | $6.6T | $6.7T | $6.7T | $6.7T | $6.9T | $6.8T | $6.9T | $7.0T | $7.1T | $7.1T | $7.2T | $7.3T | $7.3T | $7.3T | 380% | |
| Mar '26 | $6.7T | $6.6T | $6.6T | $6.6T | $6.7T | $6.7T | $6.7T | $6.7T | $6.8T | $6.9T | $6.9T | $7.0T | $7.0T | $7.1T | $7.2T | $7.3T | $7.3T | $7.4T | $7.4T | 358% | ||
| Apr '26 | $6.7T | $6.6T | $6.7T | $6.7T | $6.7T | $6.8T | $6.8T | $6.8T | $6.9T | $6.9T | $7.0T | $7.1T | $7.2T | $7.2T | $7.3T | $7.4T | $7.4T | $7.5T | 113% | |||
| May '26 | $6.7T | $6.7T | $6.7T | $6.7T | $6.8T | $6.8T | $6.8T | $7.0T | $7.0T | $7.0T | $7.1T | $7.2T | $7.3T | $7.4T | $7.4T | $7.5T | $7.6T | 44% | ||||
| Jun '26 | $6.7T | $6.7T | $6.7T | $6.8T | $6.8T | $6.8T | $7.0T | $7.0T | $7.1T | $7.2T | $7.3T | $7.3T | $7.4T | $7.5T | $7.5T | $7.7T | 13% | |||||
| Jul '26 | $6.7T | $6.7T | $6.8T | $6.8T | $6.8T | $7.0T | $7.0T | $7.1T | $7.2T | $7.3T | $7.3T | $7.4T | $7.5T | $7.6T | $7.7T | 9% | ||||||
| Aug '26 | $6.7T | $6.8T | $6.8T | $6.9T | $7.0T | $7.0T | $7.1T | $7.2T | $7.3T | $7.4T | $7.5T | $7.5T | $7.6T | $7.7T | ||||||||
| Sep '26 | $6.8T | $6.8T | $6.9T | $7.0T | $7.0T | $7.1T | $7.2T | $7.3T | $7.4T | $7.5T | $7.5T | $7.6T | $7.7T |
YoY change forecast
| Forecast made in | Jan '26 | Feb '26 | Mar '26 | Apr '26 | May '26 | Jun '26 | Jul '26 | Aug '26 | Sep '26 | Oct '26 | Nov '26 | Dec '26 | Jan '27 | Feb '27 | Mar '27 | Apr '27 | May '27 | Jun '27 | Jul '27 | Aug '27 | Sep '27 | MAPE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan '26 | -3.4% | -3.6% | -3.1% | -2.4% | -1.8% | -1.2% | -0.6% | +0.0% | +0.7% | +1.3% | +1.9% | +2.5% | +3.1% | +3.7% | +4.3% | +4.9% | +5.5% | +6.2% | +6.8% | +7.4% | +8.0% | 394% |
| Feb '26 | -2.3% | -2.8% | -2.1% | -1.4% | -0.8% | -0.1% | +0.6% | +1.2% | +1.9% | +2.6% | +3.2% | +3.9% | +4.5% | +5.2% | +5.8% | +6.5% | +7.1% | +7.8% | +8.5% | +9.1% | 380% | |
| Mar '26 | -1.2% | -1.8% | -1.1% | -0.4% | +0.3% | +1.0% | +1.7% | +2.4% | +3.1% | +3.8% | +4.5% | +5.2% | +5.9% | +6.6% | +7.3% | +8.0% | +8.6% | +9.4% | +10.1% | 358% | ||
| Apr '26 | -0.1% | -0.8% | +0.0% | +0.7% | +1.5% | +2.2% | +3.0% | +3.7% | +4.5% | +5.2% | +6.0% | +6.6% | +7.4% | +8.1% | +8.9% | +9.6% | +10.4% | +11.1% | 113% | |||
| May '26 | +0.5% | +0.2% | +1.0% | +1.8% | +2.6% | +3.3% | +4.1% | +4.9% | +5.7% | +6.4% | +7.2% | +7.9% | +8.7% | +9.5% | +10.3% | +11.0% | +11.8% | 44% | ||||
| Jun '26 | +1.1% | +1.2% | +2.0% | +2.8% | +3.6% | +4.5% | +5.3% | +6.1% | +6.9% | +7.7% | +8.5% | +9.3% | +10.2% | +11.0% | +11.8% | +12.6% | 13% | |||||
| Jul '26 | +1.4% | +2.0% | +2.9% | +3.7% | +4.5% | +5.4% | +6.2% | +7.1% | +7.8% | +8.7% | +9.5% | +10.3% | +11.2% | +12.0% | +12.9% | 9% | ||||||
| Aug '26 | +2.2% | +3.0% | +3.8% | +4.7% | +5.5% | +6.4% | +7.3% | +8.1% | +9.0% | +9.8% | +10.7% | +11.5% | +12.4% | +13.3% | ||||||||
| Sep '26 | +3.0% | +3.8% | +4.7% | +5.5% | +6.4% | +7.3% | +8.1% | +9.0% | +9.8% | +10.7% | +11.5% | +12.4% | +13.3% |
Forecasts use ordinary least-squares linear regression fitted to the YoY change series over a rolling 1Y window. Each row shows a vintage — the forecast as it would have appeared at that point in time. Projected values apply the forecasted YoY change to the prior year's level, chaining forward where actuals are unavailable. MAPE measures forecast accuracy against realized values. These are mechanical trend extrapolations, not economic models.