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Sunday, April 26, 2009

The Fed's Income in 2008: $35 Billion

According to the Federal Reserve's recently released financial statements for 2008:

1. Its assets included $502 billion of Treasury securities.

2. The Fed's income in 2008 included $25.6 billion of interest income from Treasury securities.

3. The Fed earned about $35 billion total in 2008.

Via
Newmark's Door

2 comments:

  1. BWAAAHH

    Laughable, not worth response

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  2. AMATI NONYMUS4/27/2009 8:30 AM

    "
    .......................2008......2007
    Central bank
    liquidity swaps...553,728..24,000
    "
    Are these the toxic swaps?

    Does the inflow of T-bonds to Fed come mostly from sales by Chinese government?

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