Social Security trusts, including the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Federal Disability Insurance Trust Funds, held $2.71 trillion in Treasurys as of December 2022. The next largest agency was the Military Retirement Fund at $1.36 trillion. Other large holders of debt include the Offi...
Ma Wei, a research fellow at the Institute of American Studies under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that growing market worries over the debt have caused many U.S. debt holders to lose confidence, and many have begun to slash their holdings in recent years. Observers said that...
US debt holdings: $795.5 billion A major US trade partner, Japan holds a huge amount of American debt, and has traditionally been one of the US's largest debt holders, currently owning $795.5 billion of treasury securities. Photo: AP U.S. debt holdings: $1.083 trillion A major US trade ...
told the Global Times on Tuesday that growing market worries over the debt have caused many US debt holders to lose confidence, and many have begun to slash their holdings in recent years, a process exacerbated by Washington's weaponization of the dollar to wage sanctions...
As interest rates rise, federal spending on interest payments, including payments to foreign holders of US debt, would increase substantially, the report noted. That debt path would also push up borrowing costs for the private sector, which would result in lower business investment and slow the ...
market and facilitates the US government’s debt financing. Since 2019,the Fed has bought four times the number of Treasury bonds as international holdersand has been one of the biggest players in the Treasury market. In 2020, the Fed monetized more than 100% of notes and 90% of US bonds...
The trillions flying by so fast, it’s hard to even count them. But somebody had to buy these Treasury securities. And it wasn’t just the Fed. Here’s who. Read...Who Bought the $3.3 Trillion Piled on the Incredibly Spiking US National Debt Since March?
By signing the "Birth Certificate" as an informer, she contracts with the government putting her child and her child's future labor as collateral for the national debt (servitude--slavery). The father or mother can rescind the contract within three business days (Truth-in-Lending). Since the...
At present, the US Congress's negotiations on raising the debt limit are still at a stalemate. Will the US default on debt affect the global market nerves? First, what is the composition of US debt holders? The market has been questioning why the two parties are entangled in this issue,...
It is said that Beijing used pressure on Henry Paulson, the then US Treasury Secretary, in 2008 to ask him to make sure that the bondholders of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (one of China's main holders) will not suffer any losses. Paulson, the US Treasury Secretary, said that ...