Reminder: Here's Who REALLY Owns The US Debt

Total Holdings of US Treasuries: $121.9 billion

Percent of US Debt that they own: 0.9%

Source: US Treasury

Total Holdings of US Treasuries: $148.3 billion

Percent of US Debt that they own: 1%

The Bahamas, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Netherlands Antilles and Panama, and British Virgin Islands all function as offshore financial centers. Of course, they invest in Treasury Securities as well.

Source: US Treasury

Total Holdings of US Treasuries: $153.4 billion

Percent of US Debt that they own: 1.1%

Source: US Treasury

Total Holdings of Treasuries: $211.4 billion

Percent of US Debt that they own: 1.5%

Source: US Treasury

Total holdings of Treasuries: $229.8 billion

Percent of US Debt that they own: 1.6%

Oil exporters include Ecuador, Venezuela, Indonesia, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Gabon, Libya, and Nigeria.

Source: US Treasury

Total Holdings of US Treasuries: $300.5 billion

Percent of US Debt that they own: 2%

Source: Federal Reserve Flow of Funds Accounts Note: Latest Statistics are as of March 2011

Total Holdings of US Treasuries: $301.8 billion

Percent of US Debt that they own: 2.1%

Source: Federal Reserve Flow of Funds Accounts Note: Latest Statistics are as of March 2011

Total Holdings of US Treasuries: $320.9 billion

Percent of US Debt that they own: 2.2%

Source: Federal Reserve Flow of Funds Accounts Note: Latest Statistics are as of March 2011

Total Holdings of US Treasuries: $337.7 billion

Percent of US Debt that they own: 2.4%

Source: Federal Reserve Flow of Funds Accounts Note: Latest Statistics are as of March 2011

Total Holdings of Treasuries: $346.5 billion

Percent of US Debt that they own: 2.4%

Source: US Treasury

Total Holdings of US Treasuries: $504.7 billion

Percent of US Debt that they own: 3.5%

Source: Federal Reserve Flow of Funds Accounts Note: Latest Statistics are as of March 2011

Total Holdings of US Treasuries: $506.1 billion

Percent of US Debt that they own: 3.5%

Source: Federal Reserve Flow of Funds Accounts Note: Latest Statistics are as of March 2011

Total Holdings of Treasuries: $912.4 billion

Percent of US Debt that they own: 6.4%

Source: US Treasury

Total Holdings of US Treasuries: $959.4 billion

Percent of US Debt that they own: 6.6%

The 'Household Sector' does include hedge funds, by the way.

Source: Federal Reserve Flow of Funds Accounts Note: Latest Statistics are as of March 2011

Total Holdings of Treasuries: $1.16 trillion

Percent of US Debt that they own: 8%

Source: US Treasury

The Treasury owes the Fed $1.63 trillion in Treasuries, much of which were bought for the Quantitative Easing programs.

That's 11.3% of US debt, much more than China.

Source: Federal Reserve

Total Holdings of US Treasuries: $2.67 trillion

Percent of US Debt that they own: 19%

The Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) and Disability Insurance (DI) Trust Funds invest exclusively in special issue bonds that are only available to the Social Security trust fund.  These are not publicly traded securities, but they still constitute a huge amount of debt.

Source: Social Security Administration

But Americans own most of their own country's $14,342,909,569,328.74 of debt. 

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