Fed balance sheet: detail view

The Cleveland Fed has put up a site that shows in glorious graphical detail how the Fed's new policy of quantitative easing has developed and grown over the last eight months. The light orange area in the graphic below represents traditional monetary policy. You can navigate through different date ranges and different detail views using menu bars across the top and left sides of the graph. They also include dowloadable source data, brief explanations of the data, as well as a link to a more detailed article.

Thanks to Mark Showalter for pointing me to this great resource, and thanks to the Cleveland Fed for the most simple, beautiful, and interactive display of economic data that I have seen yet. Here's to central bank transparency!