> About 40% of our debt is owned by the Federal Reserve. AFAICT: * US federal debt held by Fed Reserve Banks: $5.6T * US debt held by foreign and internation

> About 40% of our debt is owned by the Federal Reserve. AFAICT: * US federal debt held by Fed Reserve Banks: $5.6T * US debt held by foreign and international investors: 7T * Debt held by private private investors: 17T See, which while having a "2018" URL, has an up-to-date embedded graph: * https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/04/whos-buying-treasuries/ https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/04/whos-buying-treasuri... 17+7+5.6=29.6. 5.6/29.6 = 19%. > That number is increasing every year. It was rising up to 2014, then held fairly steady between 2014 and 2018, and then started decreasing until the drama of 2020 kicked in: * https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TREAST https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TREAST