Sunday, April 26, 2020

Treasury Account Balance > $1T


Treasury account now over $1T for first time in history...  and this is even with Mike having  withdrawals up by about $450B in the last month...

However this is still not quite enough of an increase in issuance to overcome the Fed's addition of reserve assets at the Depositories and banks ability to provide additional credit is remaining a bit impaired...






Treasury should increase their balance by another $1T and that would be very helpful...





9 comments:

dave said...

I've seen this kind of post here a few times now but I don't really understand it Matt. Can you spell it out for me? What does the increase in TGA account mean? Why is increase of bank reserves a negative for lending? Thx.

lastgreek said...

Account statements are best saved for a weekday, not a weekend (especially a Sunday) :)

Matt Franko said...

Golf is closed here Greek.... and I cut the grass yesterday....

Matt Franko said...

Church is Facebook live

Matt Franko said...

Pancake house is closed...

Matt Franko said...

dave if you see the TGA go up like this then it means reserves have been "drained" from the Depositories by that same amount...

This account can go up due to Treasury issuing more securities than it redeems or if the receipts are in excess of withdrawals .... or combination...

Bottom line is a TGA increase removes or "drains" reserve assets from depositories and acts to increase the Depository system regulatory leverage ratio...

Banks can then perhaps increase loans or perhaps increase the asset prices of existing risk assets...



Joe said...

Dave, Matt helped me in the comments to the following posts on this same issue, maybe they'll help you too.

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2761684730989137546&postID=4646728888252167810
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2761684730989137546&postID=7639637326340751295&page=1&token=1585173915214
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2761684730989137546&postID=5258556923189855557&page=1&token=1587173743440
Look for the (A-L)/A stuff.

Footsoldier said...

The debate is raging on Bills blog post today.

Matt's chance to clear it up once and for all.

Unknown said...

Seems like the supplemental leverage ratio is suspended for one year by the Fed. However, I saw a post on this blog some other government agency overturned it. Agree with Franko it is strange this ratio does not get more attention.