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Pysh: 2020 Fed printing simply returns central banks to post-2008 trendline

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Investor and podcast host Preston Pysh analyzes global central bank balance sheet expansion following the economic crisis in early 2020.

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“So when you look at this chart and you look at all the printing that they've done just in the last month, that line takes you straight back up to the, if you were going to plot all these balance sheets together where you had this nice linear line that was just going straight up, this printing that you've seen in the last month just goes straight back up to where that line was heading. And it's going to continue to just continue to press on.”

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The claim, plainly

As of April 2020, aggregate major central bank balance sheets (Fed, ECB, BOJ, PBOC) returned to their post-2008 linear growth trendline following early 2020 expansions.

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Assessment

Data on aggregate central bank balance sheets for the Big 4 (Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank of Japan, and People's Bank of China) confirms that the post-2008 pre-tightening linear expansion (2008–2017) projected an aggregate total of approximately $22.5 trillion to $23.1 trillion USD by March/April 2020. Following the quantitative tightening plateau of 2018–2019 (where aggregate assets hovered around $19.0T–$19.5T), the initial COVID-19 emergency policy response in March and April 2020 added over $3 trillion in assets, bringing the combined total to between $22.8 trillion and $23.3 trillion USD by late April 2020. This aligned aggregate assets directly back onto the 2008–2017 linear trendline.

From 2008 to 2017, aggregate Big 4 central bank assets grew at a steady linear rate of roughly $1.25T–$1.35T per year, reaching ~$19.5T–$20.0T by late 2017.
A standard linear regression fit on the 2008–2017 trajectory projected a March/April 2020 aggregate balance sheet total of $22.5T–$23.1T USD.
By late April 2020, following massive liquidity injections (led by the Fed expanding from $4.24T to $6.66T), aggregate Big 4 balance sheets stood at $22.8T–$23.3T USD, matching the projected linear trend.

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[1] ingoldwetrust.report [2] mises.org [3] bis.org [4] cm-arkea.com [5] scribd.com [6] yardeni.com [7] yardeni.com [8] cpifa.org

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