There are two kinds of national debt: intragovernmental and public. Intragovernmental is debt held by the Federal Reserve and Social Security and other government agencies. Public debt is held by the public: individual investors, institutions, foreign governments. After intragovernmental holdings, the ne...
Firstly, both Japan and US have something in common: both issue their debt(government debt) denominated only in their own currency Both do not promise convertibility of their debt. Both let their currency float and do not peg their currency to another currency or another commodity. Since both ...
The government has already hit its $31.4 trillion debt ceiling in January 2023 and theoretically cannot generate more capital until the U.S. Senate passes the bill to raise the ceiling. U.S. public debt to date. Source: FRED However, it’s unlikely to pass the Senate, with President Joe ...
The US dollar’s position as the dominant global reserve currency is an immensely important factor in supporting theballooning US government debt, theFed’s drunken money-printing, and Corporate America’s ambition to offshore production to cheap countries, thereby creati...
U.S. government debt pricesticked higher Wednesday following the release of weaker-than-expected housing data. The yield on the benchmark10-year Treasury notefell to 3.117 percent,while the yield on the30-year Treasury bondwas lower at 3.336 percent. Bond yields move inversely to prices. ...
[-] as Percent of Gross Domestic Product - FRED Euro area government deficit at 3.6% and EU at 3.5% of GDP—eurostat End of an era: The coming long-run slowdown in corporate profit growth and stock returns by Michael Smolyansky—Federal Reserve Board Should investors just give up on ...
it turns out those grants could require airlines to take on more debt. Executives at multiple U.S. airlines tell CNBCthe preliminary grant offers extended by the federal government on Friday call for 30% of the money offered to come in the form of low-interest loans from the Treasury Depart...
There is a further issue which has become acute since the US Government’s borrowing costs have soared, and that is debt interest which is paid to into the financial system and excluded from GDP. For this reason, using deficits as a proportion of GDP in the calculation is an error. ...
This on the back of an economy being propped up by a central bank/government debt expansion cycle unlike anything which has ever been seen in history is for WAR. I fully expect a major “false flag” event to occur here in America as the people have already been primed. Reply Greg ...
U.S. government debt prices slipped on Tuesday as investors parsed through mixed messages on the trade front coming from the Trump administration.