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U.S. Government: Evermore Reliant on Foreign Investor
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Tue, 15 Mar 2011
The Fed recently surpassing China as the largest owner of U.S. government debt, the U.S. remains heavily reliant on foreigners to fund the government’s ongoing fiscal largess. Geithner’s Treasury Department has firmly focused new issues at the mid to longer end of the yield curve (since Geithner as…
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