Sandy Leeds has an interesting post today concerning foreign holdings of publicly held US Treasury securities. According to Mr. Leeds, currently there is $8.6 trillion outstanding of publicly held US Treasury securities. The US Treasury’s website provides a table that breaks the debt down in terms of foreign holdings of these securities; thus slightly less than 50% of US Treasury securities outstanding is held by foreign investors, for what that’s worth. Also, China accounts for roughly 10% of total foreign holdings of US Treasury securities, and Japan accounts for more than 9% of that total:
Foreign Holdings of US Debt…
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My name is Jim Garven. I currently hold appointments at Baylor University as the Frank S. Groner Memorial Chair of Finance and Professor of Finance & Insurance. I also currently serve as an associate editor for Geneva Risk and Insurance Review. At Baylor, I teach courses in managerial economics, risk management, and financial engineering, and my research interests are in corporate risk management, insurance economics, and option pricing theory and applications. Please email your comments about this weblog to James_Garven@baylor.edu. View all posts by Jim Garven