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[–] [email protected] 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

$37T and counting. But nobody seems to want to ask who is on the receiving end of that pile of notes.

  • $15.16 trillion (42 percent) is held by US private investors and entities, mostly in the form of savings bonds, mutual funds and pension funds.
  • $7.36 trillion (20 percent) is held by intra-governmental US agencies and trusts.
  • $4.63 trillion (13 percent) is held by the Federal Reserve.

Among individuals, Warren Buffett, through his company Berkshire Hathaway, is the single largest non-government holder of US Treasury bills, valued at $314bn.

Just something to think about when we hear how we've got "too much" debt and people start worrying about who will get paid back first.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago

As is tradition when republicans write the budget