Annual

F.212 Municipal Securities


The Financial Accounts (formerly known as the Flow of Funds accounts) are a set of financial accounts used to track the sources and uses of funds by sector. They are a component of a system of macroeconomic accounts including the National Income and Product accounts (NIPA) and balance of payments accounts, all of which serve as a comprehensive set of information on the economy’s performance.(1) Some important inferences that can be drawn from the Financial accounts are the financial strength of a given sector, new economic trends, changes in the composition of wealth, and development of new financial instruments over time.(1)
Sectors are compiled into three categories: households, nonfinancial businesses, and banks. The sources of funds for a sector are its internal funds (savings from income after consumption) and external funds (loans from banks and other financial intermediaries). (1) Funds for a given sector are used for its investments in physical and financial assets. Dividing sources and uses of funds into two categories helps the staff of the Federal Reserve System pay particular attention to external sources of funds and financial uses of funds.(2) One example is whether households are borrowing more from banks—or in other words, whether household debt is rising. Another example might be whether banks are using more of their funds to provide loans to consumers. Transactions within a sector are not shown in the accounts; however, transactions between sectors are.(2) Monitoring the external flows of funds provides insights into a sector’s health and the performance of the economy as a whole.
Data for the Financial accounts are compiled from a large number of reports and publications, including regulatory reports such as those submitted by banks, tax filings, and surveys conducted by the Federal Reserve System.(2) The Financial accounts are published quarterly as a set of tables in the Federal Reserve’s Z.1 statistical release.
(1) Teplin, Albert M. “The U.S. Flow of Funds Accounts and Their Uses.” Federal Reserve Bulletin, July 2001; http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/bulletin/2001/0701lead.pdf.
(2) Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. “Guide to the Flow of Funds Accounts.” 2000, http://www.federalreserve.gov/apps/fof/.

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    1946    
 
 
    2024
Millions of U.S. Dollars
Line Name 2024 Preceding
Period
Year Ago
from Period
line 1
Net issues
119,652 24,318 24,318
line 2
State and local governments
98,198 23,311 23,311
line 3
Short-term
7,540 1,433 1,433
line 4
Long-term
90,658 21,878 21,878
line 5
Nonprofit organizations
8,405 2,339 2,339
line 6
Nonfinancial corporate business (industrial revenue bonds)
13,049 -1,332 -1,332
line 7
Net purchases
119,652 24,318 24,318
line 8
Household sector
93,630 94,166 94,166
line 9
Nonfinancial corporate business
1,143 -4,096 -4,096
line 10
Nonfinancial noncorporate business
121 -33 -33
line 11
State and local governments
2,440 1,901 1,901
line 12
U.S.-chartered depository institutions
-41,688 -64,764 -64,764
line 13
Foreign banking offices in U.S.
0 0 0
line 14
Banks in U.S.-affiliated areas
-2 28 28
line 15
Credit unions
-476 -449 -449
line 16
Property-casualty insurance companies
-10,848 -29,330 -29,330
line 17
Life insurance companies
-14,065 -9,685 -9,685
line 18
Federal government retirement funds
4 -4 -4
line 19
State and local govt. retirement funds
0 0 0
line 20
Money market funds
8,888 11,717 11,717
line 21
Mutual funds
50,682 -1,092 -1,092
line 22
Closed-end funds
-1,000 -704 -704
line 23
Exchange-traded funds
17,101 14,814 14,814
line 24
Government-sponsored enterprises
128 55 55
line 25
Brokers and dealers
2,073 992 992
line 26
Rest of the world
5,695 6,211 6,211
   

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