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To: Wade who wrote (43192)

4/27/2013 3:47:08 PM

From: Jacob Snyder

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<foreigners own most of US bonds>

5.66T$/17.2T$ = 33% foreign ownership of the total debt. The total debt equals the public debt + Intragovernmental debt.

5.66T$ total foreign ownership as of Feb. 2013 treasury.gov

Projected and Recent US Federal Debt Numbers

	Gross Federal Debt	Debt Held by Public	Debt Held by Federal Reserve
FY 2014*	$18.2 trillion	$11.6 trillion	$1.6 trillion
FY 2013*	$17.2 trillion	$10.7 trillion	$1.6 trillion
FY 2012	$16.1 trillion	$9.6 trillion	$1.6 trillion
FY 2011	$14.8 trillion	$8.5 trillion	$1.7 trillion
FY 2010	$13.5 trillion	$8.2 trillion	$0.8 trillion
FY 2009	$11.9 trillion	$6.8 trillion	$0.8 trillion

“Gross Federal Debt” is the total debt owed by the United States federal government. It comprises “Debt Held by Public”, including foreign governments, debt held by federal government accounts such as IOUs owed to the Social Security trust fund, and “Debt held by Federal Reserve,” debt bought by the Federal Reserve System as part of the monetary base. usgovernmentspending.com

16.5T total federal debt =

Foreign - $5.311 trillion = 32% of the 16.5T
Federal Reserve - $1.66 trillion
State and Local Government, including their pension funds - $709.1 billion
Mutual Funds - $864.9 billion
Private Pension Funds - $605.2 billion
Banks - $305.2 billion
Insurance Companies - $259.1 billion
U.S. Savings Bonds - $184.7 billion
Other (individuals, government-sponsored enterprises, brokers and dealers, bank personal trusts and estates, corporate and non-corporate businesses, and other investors) - $1.14 trillion. (Federal Reserve as of Januray 2, 2013; All others as of June 2012. Source: Treasury Bulletin, Ownership of Federal Securities, Table OFS-2)

7.3T = total owned by all U.S. government agences, through Intragovernmental holdings (4.9T) and public debt held by other agencies (2.4T) useconomy.about.com