Ben at The Financial Ninja has kept a running monthly summary of various charts from the Federal Reserve that are absolutely worth viewing in full detail.

His most recent post is entitled, “Really Scary Fed Charts [for] October – Now ‘Crazy’ Scary!“.

Ben plots the Non-Borrowed Assets of Depository Institutions (hint – it’s very negative… as in close to -$200 billion negative) and then compares it to the Total Borrowings of Depository Institutions from the Federal Reserve which shows a spike up to almost $300 billion in new borrowing.

He then shows the Discount Rate of Borrowing as well as the Total Borrowings and the Reserve Balances for the Fed.

Each chart is taken directly from the St. Louis Federal Reserve’s website, which allows you to customize your own views based on the data they’ve made freely public.

Ben then provides some commentary, additional links, and sources for more information.

If you can bring yourself to look at what he’s found, it’s a great read.