Barry Ritholtz, Columnist

Visualizing the Fed's Balance Sheet: Ritholtz Chart

Given yesterdayâs surprise taper, I wanted to direct your attention to a very interesting look at the Fedâs balance sheet.

December 19, 2013 at 5:42 PM UTC

By Barry Ritholtz

Barry Ritholtz is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management, and was previously chief market strategist at Maxim Group. He is the author of “Bailout Nation.”

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I am a huge sucker for a clever piece of digital design. Given yesterday's surprise taper, I wanted to direct your attention to a very interesting look at the Fed's balance sheet.

The accompanying chart comes from J.P. Koning, who designs financial visualizations at Financial Graph & Art and blogs at Moneyness. Click here to be taken to the interactive version, where you can highlight any program to see the Fed's actions: