This seems dubious. I think the report is referring to total US assets (public and private). See this quote... That’s a hard question to answer completely, b

This seems dubious. I think the report is referring to total US assets (public and private). See this quote... That’s a hard question to answer completely, but a good place to start is the Financial Report of the United States Government. According to the 2009 report, the U.S. owned $2.7 trillion in assets at the end of 2009, up from only $2.0 trillion a year earlier. Many of these are off-limits (we aren’t going to sell the Capitol or the USS Nimitz), but some raise interesting questions. Source:http://dmarron.com/2010/03/07/what-assets-could-the-united-states-sell/ http://dmarron.com/2010/03/07/what-assets-could-the-united-s... The report this article is based on is online but I didn't have time to go through all of it. Still I'm pretty sure I'm right. Here's the link: http://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/reports/freepass_pdfs/Mapping_global_capital_markets/Capital_markets_update_email.pdf http://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/reports/freepass_pdfs/Mapping_gl... (look at the summary under the chart on pg 8)