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What’s going to happen to the Fed’s balance-sheet?

jumanji0881
It would not be good to have to hint of QE4 when they're trying to exit ZIRP (good luck on that happening in the foreseeable future).

Fed has a very clear balance sheet

Maturity Distribution of Securities, Loans, and Selected Other Assets and Liabilities
Release Date: April 2, 2015
http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/current/

FED U.S. Treasury securities Holdings

remaining Maturity / amount
over 1 year to 5 years
1,112,868 (Millions of dollars)

over 5 years to 10 years
637,917

over 10 years 643,072

Total (U.S. Treasury securities, excludes MBS)
2,459,578

over 45% holdings on maturity (1.1 trillion) in the next 5 years

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Calls for More Accountability from Fed
Author: Brian Honea March 6, 2015

http://dsnews.com/news/03-06-2015/senate-banking-committee-chairman-calls-accountability-fed

it is "not clear" when the Fed will explain this and other measures such as what indicators it will use to determine when it should unwind its balance sheet.

"The Fed should not only be able to answer these questions, it should be held accountable for its actions," Representative Richard Shelby said.

What’s going to happen to the Fed’s balance sheet?