{"id":3069,"date":"2009-04-24T12:14:45","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T16:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=3069"},"modified":"2016-09-20T17:17:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T21:17:36","slug":"foreign-holders-of-us-treasury-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/24\/foreign-holders-of-us-treasury-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Holders of U.S. Treasury Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have all heard that there is a great deal of U.S. debt owned by China and other Asian countries, but here is the breakdown of over $3 trillion that is on loan to the world. Obviously Ben and the team need to keep a lot of people happy and are continually juggling the needs of America with the concerns of the world.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For now, rates will stay artificially low to keep all happy. There will be a time though that we see a change in the pricing, once the Fed stops purchasing non-stop. That day will be a glorious move for the Inverse 20-year Treasury ETF ( TBT). Of course first we need to see our economy improving, so I don&#8217;t think that you will miss the move. Keep TBT on your watch list.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3070\" title=\"us-treasuries\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/us-treasuries-1024x740-1.jpg\" alt=\"us-treasuries\" width=\"620\" height=\"448\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have all heard that there is a great deal of U.S. debt owned by China and other Asian countries, but here is the breakdown of over $3 trillion that is on loan to the world. Obviously Ben and the team need to keep a lot of people happy and are continually juggling the needs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[215,481],"class_list":["post-3069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-markets","tag-credit-markets","tag-economy","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}