Posted on 02/12/2010 3:28:09 PM PST by BIOCHEMKY
MAJOR FOREIGN HOLDERS OF TREASURY SECURITIES (in billions of dollars as of 12/09)
China, Mainland 789.6 Japan 757.3 United Kingdom 2/ 277.5 Oil Exporters 3/ 187.7 Carib Bnkng Ctrs 4/ 179.8 Brazil 157.1 Hong Kong 146.2 Russia 128.1 Luxembourg 91.7 Taiwan 78.4 Germany 53.6 France 47.5 Canada 46.6 Korea, South 39.1 Ireland 38.8 Singapore 36.4 Thailand 31.7 India 31.6 Turkey 29.6 Norway 26.2 Mexico 26.2 Egypt 25.3 Netherlands 20.3 Sweden 19.4 Italy 19.1 Israel 16.6 Colombia 15.6 Belgium 15.3 Chile 12.2 Philippines 12.2 Australia 11.5 Malaysia 11.1 All Other 142.3 Grand Total 3597.5 Of which:
For. Official 2404.6 Treasury Bills 586.6 T-Bonds & Notes 1818.0
Do you think we could be a little more polite to the head of Toyota who's coming to visit soon?
I’d like to see how many billions we own of Chinese/Japanese debt and what percentage of their debt that is.
Politicians on both sides have sold our a##es out from under us.
It’s just paper.......get over it
Remember the old adage, when you owe the bank %10K the bank owns you. When you owe the bank $10million, you own the bank.The Chinese should remember this. Ask Japan what happened to their investments in the 80s, like Rock Center.
Nah, because Japan is actually a friend of America's and that makes them an enemy to Zer0.
MAJOR FOREIGN HOLDERS OF TREASURY SECURITIES (in billions of dollars) HOLDINGS 1/ AT END OF PERIOD Nov Oct Sep Aug Jul Jun May Apr Mar Feb Jan Dec Nov Country 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2008 2008 ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ China, Mainland 789.6 798.9 798.9 797.1 800.5 776.4 801.5 763.5 767.9 744.2 739.6 727.4 713.2 Japan 757.3 745.9 751.0 730.6 723.9 711.2 677.2 685.9 686.7 661.9 634.8 626.0 625.2 United Kingdom 2/ 277.5 230.1 248.8 226.4 219.4 213.4 163.7 152.7 128.1 129.0 123.9 130.9 132.4 Oil Exporters 3/ 187.7 188.4 185.3 189.2 189.3 191.2 192.9 189.6 192.0 181.8 186.6 186.2 187.2 Carib Bnkng Ctrs 4/ 179.8 170.6 173.0 181.3 194.5 191.0 195.2 205.1 214.0 189.5 176.9 197.5 205.0 Brazil 157.1 156.2 144.9 137.3 138.1 139.8 127.1 126.0 126.6 130.8 133.5 127.0 136.1 Hong Kong 146.2 142.0 132.2 124.7 115.3 99.8 93.2 80.9 78.9 76.3 71.7 77.2 70.6 Russia 128.1 122.5 121.8 121.6 118.0 119.9 124.5 137.0 138.4 130.1 119.6 116.4 108.0 Luxembourg 91.7 91.0 99.0 94.4 92.2 104.3 96.2 97.4 106.0 92.1 87.0 97.3 94.2 Taiwan 78.4 78.7 78.1 75.9 77.4 77.0 75.7 78.3 74.8 72.6 73.3 71.8 70.2 Switzerland 75.8 71.5 68.9 68.2 68.1 71.5 63.7 64.2 67.7 68.2 62.1 62.3 63.8 Germany 53.6 52.9 53.7 55.0 56.1 53.8 55.1 54.4 54.9 56.5 56.2 56.0 53.8 France 47.5 36.2 32.0 35.0 24.6 26.0 25.9 30.6 27.1 16.8 17.9 16.8 18.4 Canada 46.6 40.3 37.7 25.7 19.6 18.4 11.0 12.5 11.3 10.3 8.4 7.8 12.7 Korea, South 39.1 42.2 38.8 38.7 37.6 36.3 37.4 35.4 33.1 33.3 31.3 31.3 32.7 Ireland 38.8 38.3 32.7 36.6 38.7 46.3 50.6 49.7 54.7 54.5 50.0 54.3 41.3 Singapore 36.4 35.2 38.3 42.0 42.3 40.8 39.6 39.7 39.1 39.3 38.3 40.8 38.7 Thailand 31.7 30.1 30.1 33.5 31.4 29.7 26.8 28.5 26.0 39.7 37.2 32.4 33.9 India 31.6 32.9 35.9 38.5 38.9 39.3 38.8 38.5 38.2 34.6 32.5 29.2 22.3 Turkey 29.6 30.4 28.2 28.7 27.3 27.5 28.8 27.2 30.2 32.4 31.3 30.8 29.0 Norway 26.2 24.9 25.2 24.7 28.9 28.7 28.3 27.5 26.2 21.1 21.9 23.1 20.2 Mexico 26.2 20.7 22.1 27.5 27.7 29.5 31.5 35.3 36.2 37.8 34.8 34.8 33.8 Egypt 25.3 20.2 20.8 20.4 18.6 17.3 18.6 18.5 18.5 19.1 16.9 17.2 16.8 Netherlands 20.3 19.8 21.3 21.4 21.5 18.9 16.4 16.5 17.6 16.1 16.8 15.4 15.6 Sweden 19.4 19.2 18.3 16.7 16.5 16.4 13.0 12.7 12.5 12.6 12.4 12.7 13.1 Italy 19.1 19.1 17.6 16.9 17.3 16.7 16.7 16.1 16.6 16.4 15.6 16.0 15.9 Israel 16.6 16.0 18.3 17.7 17.0 18.1 19.0 19.1 19.4 17.4 16.9 18.8 13.8 Colombia 15.6 16.8 16.8 16.4 14.9 11.8 12.0 11.5 11.3 11.5 11.4 11.1 11.5 Belgium 15.3 14.7 15.0 15.6 15.7 15.7 15.7 15.8 15.4 14.5 15.5 15.9 15.3 Chile 12.2 12.5 12.9 13.0 13.5 14.3 14.7 15.1 15.5 15.2 15.2 15.2 15.1 Philippines 12.2 11.9 11.8 12.4 11.4 11.6 11.8 12.0 12.4 12.6 11.6 11.7 11.5 Australia 11.5 10.5 10.1 10.2 9.8 9.9 9.0 8.4 5.8 8.1 7.8 9.3 8.7 Malaysia 11.1 11.0 11.0 11.2 11.9 11.7 12.3 11.6 10.6 8.4 8.0 8.4 8.8 All Other 142.3 146.4 146.7 148.5 149.7 147.5 148.6 145.0 150.7 156.7 154.5 147.0 147.4 Grand Total 3597.5 3498.1 3497.4 3453.1 3427.5 3382.1 3292.6 3262.1 3264.6 3161.5 3071.5 3075.9 3036.0 Of which: For. Official 2404.6 2384.8 2369.4 2360.0 2346.1 2295.7 2287.5 2253.6 2248.6 2198.1 2165.8 2138.7 2104.1 Treasury Bills 586.6 598.0 597.7 607.3 606.6 571.9 586.2 530.6 542.7 521.2 486.9 457.9 427.2 T-Bonds & Notes 1818.0 1786.8 1771.7 1752.7 1739.5 1723.8 1701.3 1723.1 1705.9 1676.9 1678.9 1680.8 1676.9 Department of the Treasury/Federal Reserve Board January 19, 2010 1/ Estimated foreign holdings of U.S. Treasury marketable and non-marketable bills, bonds, and notes reported under the Treasury International Capital (TIC) reporting system are based on annual Surveys of Foreign Holdings of U.S. Securities and on monthly data. 2/ United Kingdom includes Channel Islands and Isle of Man. 3/ Oil exporters include Ecuador, Venezuela, Indonesia, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Gabon, Libya, and Nigeria. 4/ Caribbean Banking Centers include Bahamas, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Netherlands Antilles and Panama. Beginning with new series for June 2006, also includes British Virgin Islands.
I am old enough to remember when Made in Japan was a big joke...Until Honda came along.
THANK YOU!!!!! (for the new formatting of the extended table)
http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/economics/list-of-national-debt-by-country/
Japans Public sector debt is very high. However, Japan has a high savings rate which makes it easier for the government to finance the debt. 90% of Japanese debt is owned by Japanese individuals. US has a low savings ratio and 25% of US debt is owned by foreigners. Nevertheless the National Debt of Japan is a real burden for the economy
An important factor is not just cumulative national debt, but, the annual budget deficit. This annual deficit determines the rate of deterioration in the public sector debt.
In the above list, the United States debt is given at just below 40% of national debt. But, a more commonly used statistics is gross government debt which stands at close to 90% (84%, Glen Beck Show 02/12) of GDP.
The Federal Reserve owns America. I always say that I’m the head of my family, but my wife is the neck and can turn the head wherever she wants; the same is more true with America. The Fed owns the money and thus owns America. That’s why I’m for auditing the Fed and making necessary changes.
“The Federal Reserve owns America...The Fed owns the money and thus owns America. Thats why Im for auditing the Fed and making necessary changes.”
I’m ALL for auditing the Fed!!!!!
Also, it is only treasuries, and there are lot of other securities.
Americans own $55 trillion in assets, net of all their debts.
Americans own America. What a surprise...
The Fed doesn't own my money. Or my country.
I want to know how our debt is influencing Presidential policies to remove public lands with energy development potential from possible development.
A document recently obtained from the DOI indicates the Obama Administration is considering a flurry of new national monument designations in the near future. The document mentions designations and land acquisitions in 11 different western states: Utah, Montana, New Mexico, California, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Alaska, and Wyoming. As many as 13 million acres of land (possibly more) are at risk for potential designation. Coincidentally, nearly every one of these proposed designations involve areas with energy potential.
Designations are declared by the President under he 1906 Antiquities Act. This Act was designed to protect small areas of land and specific items of archeological, scientific, or historic importance which were in imminent danger of destruction. The legislation instructs the President to reserve the smallest area compatible with the proper care and management of the objects to be protected. During initial debate on the Act, the argument was whether to allow the maximum designation to be 320 or 640 acres.
President Clinton abused the Act 22 times to designate nearly 5.9 million acres of federal land as national monuments. Many of these designations far exceeded the smallest area compatible to preserve the resource and nearly all were designated without any public input or consultation with state and local officials.
One infamous designation was the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument in Utah. The Utah delegation was not informed of the designation until the day before the announcement. This designation robbed nearly $2 billion from Utahs schoolchildren because rich coal deposits within the monument could not be developed. It also robbed the State of Utah and Federal government of nearly $315 billion worth of coal and coal-bed methane resources, along with $1.1 billion of oil, gas, and nonfuel minerals.
These designations are just one more example of a renewed War on the West that would public limit access,
reduce domestic energy production, ignore basic property rights, and impede job creation in Western states.
Proposed new designations: San Rafael Swell, UT; Montana’s Northern Prairie, MT; Lesser Prairie Chicken Preserve, NM; Baryessa Snow Mt., CA; Heart of Great Basin, NV; Otero Mesa, NM; NW Sonora Desert, AZ; Owyhee Desert, OR/NV; Cascade-Siskiyou Expansion, OR/CA; Vermillion Basin, CO; Bodie Hills, CA; Modoc Plateau, CA; Cedar Mesa Region, UT; San Juan Islands, WA; Bristol Bay region, AK; Teshetpuk Lake, AK; Red Desert. WY; Alpine Triangle, CO; Upper Missouri River, MT; Pioneer Range, ID; John Day River, OR; Upper Green River Valley, WY; National Historic and Scenic Trails and conolidation of cxheckerboard lands (various states.)
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