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Offline endicom

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Here’s who owns a record $21.21 trillion of U.S. debt
« on: August 22, 2018, 09:01:45 am »
Market Watch
Jeffry Bartash
Aug. 21, 2018

Americans own 70% of U.S. debt, but China, Japan loom large



Who owns the huge and growing U.S. national debt? By and large, Americans.

Some 70% of the national debt is owned by domestic government, institutions investors and the Federal Reserve. A shade under 30% is owned by foreign entities, according to the latest information from the U.S. Treasury.

More... https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-who-owns-a-record-2121-trillion-of-us-debt-2018-08-21?mod=MW_section_top_stories

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Re: Here’s who owns a record $21.21 trillion of U.S. debt
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2018, 09:27:28 pm »
You can take the US govt and Federal Reserve and put into a single category entitled "US taxpayers".

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Re: Here’s who owns a record $21.21 trillion of U.S. debt
« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2018, 09:37:56 pm »
Great post @endicom !
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Re: Here’s who owns a record $21.21 trillion of U.S. debt
« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2018, 10:08:38 pm »
Let's spend a couple trillion or four trillion more!,  Let's party man! Trump is prez!  MAGA!  Run them presses!  Run 'em!
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Re: Here’s who owns a record $21.21 trillion of U.S. debt
« Reply #4 on: August 22, 2018, 10:35:33 pm »
Let's spend a couple trillion or four trillion more!,  Let's party man! Trump is prez!  MAGA!  Run them presses!  Run 'em!


Better yet, let's not trash every thread with your obsessive, repetitive drivel.


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Re: Here’s who owns a record $21.21 trillion of U.S. debt
« Reply #5 on: August 22, 2018, 10:45:21 pm »
It's all fun and games till the interest payments suck your treasury receipts dry.
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Re: Here’s who owns a record $21.21 trillion of U.S. debt
« Reply #6 on: August 22, 2018, 11:03:01 pm »

Better yet, let's not trash every thread with your obsessive, repetitive drivel.

Obsessive repetitive eh?

You mean like lauding a man as national savior while he and his party are charging and spending trillions upon trillions in debt on our national credit card while you people continue to crow about the need to vote for the same idiots and party because you people think they are going to stop doing it??

That kind of obsessive repetitive?

Wash, rinse, repeat?

I know, I know, just like the Democrats, you so-called "Conservatives" don't want to hear anything unless it's praise and accolades for your guy in the White House.
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Re: Here’s who owns a record $21.21 trillion of U.S. debt
« Reply #7 on: August 22, 2018, 11:58:35 pm »
It's all fun and games till the interest payments suck your treasury receipts dry.

Exactly......then we roll the guillotines out and balance the books. There is no downside here.