China vs. U.S. Central Bank Holdings
China has expressed concern that the growth of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet will adversely affect the value of its dollar reserves. But China has plenty of experience of its own with rapid balance sheet growth. The PBOC’s balance sheet is a larger share of China’s GDP than the Fed’s balance sheet is of U.S. GDP. Does China’s own experience sterilizing rapid growth of its central bank balance sheet provide a hint about the U.S.’s future?
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this chart could be less confusing if you reverse the colors!
[...] Tillman — my colleagues at the Council’s Center for Geoeconomic Studies — have plotted the growth in the balance sheet of the PBoC (relative to China’s GDP) and the growth in the [...]
Frank – Good point. Will flip the colors so that the Fed is blue and PBoC is red.