Holders of U.S. Public Debt

Posted on December 15, 2010 by macromon

The best table we’ve seen on the U.S. government’s major creditors.  Nice compliment to our Dec11 post, Who’s Funding the U.S. Budget Deficit.  The U.S. government’s  fiscal year begins October1 and ends September 30.

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2 Responses to Holders of U.S. Public Debt

  1. Sean's avatar Sean says:
    December 16, 2010 at 7:40 AM

    Really interesting. It should be noted that a lot of Asian sovereign purchases show up in TIC data as originating in the UK, because they’re done by brokers there; if this is from the same data set, then a lot of those UK holdings are probably actually Chinese.

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  2. macromon's avatar macromon says:
    December 16, 2010 at 11:21 AM

    Exactly. I am sure UK purchases, include a “metric tonne” of petrodollars, also. Thanks.

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