Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Who Owns America? And Visualizing How Big is the Debt Really is.

Everybody likes to say that China owns America because they own most of America's debt.  Well, it is simply not true.  The Chinese only own 8% of our debt.  Here is one breakdown of who has the rest:
Who-owns-America? Hint-its-not-china

Here's another:  Wikipedia - United_States_public_debt
Here's a good view:  Seekingalpha.com - Who-holds-US-debt?

And just how big is the debt?  Some good graphics here:
America's Debt in Pictures

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