On the fiscal front, Congress enacted $6 trillion of Covid-Lockdown bailouts and stimmies virtually sight unseen.
The Fed's balance sheet soared from an already bloated $3.8 trillion in the fall of 2019 to a peak of $9.0 trillion a few months ago.
How do you even comprehend that $5.2 trillion of central bank balance sheet expansion? After all, what it actually measures is the cumulative gobs of new fiat credits being printed day-in-and-day-out?
Still, here's one powerful metric that our mad-money pumpers in Washington surely didn't notice as the ran the Fed's printing presses red hot.
To wit, the Fed's balance sheet crossed the $5.2 trillion mark for the very first time in history on March 25, 2020.
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