Federal Reserve Question: Why has the Balance Sheet of the Federal Reserve DOUBLED+ over the same period of last year? I'm so dumb.  Not good with big numbers. Not an accounting fag either. Can someone with ability explain why the Federal Reserve Balance Sheet is 7,133,672M this last week as compared to 3,137,152M same week last year? What does this mean to us plain old Americans? Here's the link to what I'm looking at: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/current/h41.htm#h41tab9 Thanks for the help in understanding.