Sentences with phrase «treasury debt held by the public»

To put this number into context, the total Treasury debt held by the public today is about $ 15 trillion; a $ 5 trillion revenue shortfall would by itself require federal borrowing equal to one - third of the debt currently in the hands of the public.

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Debt held by the public, such as Treasury securities held by investors outside the federal government, including that held by individuals, corporations, the Federal Reserve System and foreign, state and local governments.

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Its public, or marketable, debt (treasury notes, bonds and bills) is held by investors outside the federal government.

As of February 2012, $ 5.1 trillion, or approximately one half of the debt held by the public, was owned by foreign investors, the largest of which are China and Japan who both own over $ 1 trillion in treasury securities.

As a practical matter, the only effect is that the interest that the public pays on Treasury debt can not actually be remitted by the Fed back to the Treasury as usual, but must instead be retained by the Fed in order to recapitalize itself due to losses on the bonds it holds.