Total Bank Credit
The Graph of the Week comes from the Fed's Report H.8 Assets and Liabilities of Commercial Banks in the United States. It shows Total Bank Credit in billions of dollars from1/5/2000 through 9/10/2008. This data series, and many more, can be downloaded from FRED® (Federal Reserve Economic Data), a database of 19,933 U.S. economic time series available at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
Links to FRED and other Fed resources are at NABE's Federal Reserve Corner, part of our Economic Links Collection.