{"id":4192,"date":"2011-09-21T12:49:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T18:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4192"},"modified":"2011-09-21T12:49:33","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T18:49:33","slug":"holders-of-sovereign-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4192","title":{"rendered":"Holders of Sovereign Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/macromon.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/holders-of-sovereign-debt.jpg?w=851&#038;h=1131\" width=\"600\"><br \/><Br><a href=\"http:\/\/macromon.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/20\/holders-of-sovereign-debt\/\">macromon:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Here\u2019s a great chart just released by the International Monetary Fund.   Note that almost half \u2014 47 percent \u2013  of the US$14.7 trillion U.S. federal government debt is held by the Federal Reserve and the government itself, such as the Social Security trust fund. Add to that the 22 percent foreign official holdings (mainly central banks)  and almost 70 percent of the debt of the U.S. government is held by non-market\/non-profit oriented investors.   Stunning!<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>macromon: Here\u2019s a great chart just released by the International Monetary Fund. Note that almost half \u2014 47 percent \u2013 of the US$14.7 trillion U.S. federal government debt is held by the Federal Reserve and the government itself, such as the Social Security trust fund. Add to that the 22 percent foreign official holdings (mainly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,39,35,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4193,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192\/revisions\/4193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}