China, Japan, UK, oil countries and Brazil, top holders of US Treasury bonds

Thursday, July 28th 2011 - 06:27 UTC

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While US politicians remain divided on how to raise the government's ability to borrow, with a key deadline less than a week away, how is the current 14.29 trillion dollars in federal debt split, according to stats from the Treasury Department? Read full article

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geo
the debt from Greece is /926 millions $
the debt from Iceland is / 209 millions $
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the debt from Fiji is /1 million $
the debt from Guinea is / 1 million $
the debt from Mali is / 1 million $
the debt from Mongolia is/ 1 million $
the debt from Somalia is / 1 million $
the debt from Togo is / 1 million $
the debt from Vanuatu is / 1 million $
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the debts from Venezuela is / 6,679 millions $
the debt from Argentina is / 4,127 millions $
the debt from Brasil is / 134,942 millions $
the debt from Chile is / 10,540 millions $
the debt from Colombia is / 8,106 millions $
the debt from Peru is / 9,064 millions $
the debt from Uruguay is / 5,105 millions $
the debt from Paraguay is / 109 millions $
Jul 28th, 2011 - 09:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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lsolde
l have no debts, geo. l own my house & car & have investments that pay a dividend. Luck & Prudence.(trying not to be smug!)
Jul 28th, 2011 - 11:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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geo
[] - isolde

bravo !

i have no debt either, also not using credit card
which carry usurer interest ...
Jul 28th, 2011 - 01:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Forgetit86
What kind of debt is that, geo? That looks nothing lie the external or public debt figures I've seen.
Jul 28th, 2011 - 09:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Rob the argentine
http://www.usdebtclock.org

Isolde, can you be my economic adviser? I lost track of the amount of my debt, maybe my grandchildren will finish paying it!!
Jul 28th, 2011 - 10:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Fido Dido
www.usdebtclock.org is worthless, for a couple reasons. It doesn't even count the wars and unfunded liabilties (social security, medicare, medicate) and other government programs plus the bailouts etc etc etc.
Jul 29th, 2011 - 01:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Forgetit87
Yep, I've just read an article that said just that: that US budget deficit numbers don't take into account defense spending. The deficit is around 11% of total US GDP (!); I can't even imagine what it'd look like if defense spending was calculated along with other kinds of expenditure.
Jul 29th, 2011 - 02:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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geo
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foreign holding of US securities =
treasury debts + agency debts + corp.debts

source : US Treasury Report
Jul 29th, 2011 - 10:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Bubba
Maybe the USA should pull a ARG and screw everybody out of their savings?
Aug 03rd, 2011 - 11:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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