MACRO / BITCOIN
Global Liquidity vs Bitcoin
Does Bitcoin's price track the expansion and contraction of central bank liquidity worldwide?
What is "Global Liquidity"?
The Fed's contribution is NET of TGA (Treasury's checking account at the Fed) and reverse repo (cash parked overnight at the Fed) — both are dollars that left the banking system and aren't available to markets, so counting them would overstate liquidity. The other 4 banks are used gross (no equivalent free data exists for them). When central banks print money / buy bonds ("quantitative easing"), this number rises. When they shrink their balance sheets ("quantitative tightening"), it falls. The idea: more global liquidity → more cash available to flow into risk assets like stocks and Bitcoin. Because the four non-dollar balance sheets are converted month by month, a falling dollar raises this line even if no central bank does anything.