Don’t Depend on the Foreign Official Sector to Keep on Financing the US CA Deficit

If previous trends hold:

Figure 1: Total Federal debt held by public (black line), held by Fed (yellow bar), held by foreign official sector (green bar), held by foreign non-official (red bar), held by rest (blue bar), all in bn.$. NBER defined peak-to-trough recession dates shaded gray. Source: Treasury via FRED, TIC for 2026Q1 foreign holdings, and NBER.

Note the green bars over time. Normalized by GDP:

Figure 2: Total Federal debt held by public (black line), held by Fed (yellow bar), held by foreign official sector (green bar), held by foreign non-official (red bar), held by rest (blue bar), all normalized by GDP. NBER defined peak-to-trough recession dates shaded gray. Source: Treasury via FRED, TIC for 2026Q1 foreign holdings, BEA, and NBER.

One thought on “Don’t Depend on the Foreign Official Sector to Keep on Financing the US CA Deficit

  1. pgl

    Sean Penn to direct Warner Bros. movie about a police officer at the Jan. 6 Capitol riot

    apnews.com/article/sean-penn-jan-6-movie-fe4cd761733e2f558669b9a8d8612e3f

    Expect the MAGA crowd try to stop this movie and deport Sean Penn.

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