Large Scale Central Bank Asset Purchases, by Currency (Brad Setser, Emma Smith, Council on Foreign Relations)

In an earlier post, I added reserve purchases by the world’s major emerging market central banks, Japan and Switzerland to the bonds purchases by the Fed, the BoJ, the ECB and Bank of England. I wanted to highlight that the central banks of the world were buying a lot of U.S. and European bonds before the big central banks started quantitative easing (QE). China and others bought a ton of bonds prior to the global crisis.

http://blogs.cfr.org/setser/2016/10/18/large-scale-central-bank-asset-purchases-by-currency/