Post the whole thing?
That IS the whole thing. Aside from graphs.
The large Banks park a bit of the required risk reserves at the Fed to recoupe losses from the last decade and some people are freaking out over what is common number of 2 decades ago, a months worth of GDP in the overnight market at the fed instead of with other peer banks. Yes some of these resaves are created by fractional reserve methods but remain a liability on the banks balance sheet.
.5 Trillion is a week income of the us economy. So we are talking the float of 1 month cashflow.
2 Trillion dollars is 4 times the gross yearly sales of walmart, and the banks combined make anywhere from 75M - 150M per night or a few hundred billion per year that will not keep up with inflation.
It is not a lot of money as compaired to
Consumer Debt - $16 trillion.
Mortgage Debt - $20 trillion.
Credit Card Debt - $1 trillion
Education Debt - $2 trillion
US State and County Debt - $26 Trillion
US Federal Debt held by Fed- $12 Trillion
US Federal Debt held by Public / Foreign - $24 Trillion