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Thanks for a very interesting question. As of April 30, 2003, the
United States national debt was $6,460,380,745,789.28. The National
Debt is broken down into Debt Held by the Public and Intragovernmental
Holdings. Debt Held by the Public is all Federal debt held by
individuals, corporations, state or local governments, foreign
governments, and other entities outside of the United States
Government less Federal Financing Bank securities. Intragovernmental
Holdings is Government Account Series securities held by Government
trust funds, revolving funds, and special funds; and Federal Financing
Bank securities.
The breakdown of this debt was $3,702,844,997,678.07 being held by the
public and $2,757,535,748,111.21 being held by intragovernmental
holdings. Below is a breakdown of the various holdings. The link
under each holding takes you to a detailed description:
Marketable:
Bills
[http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/com/combills.htm]
Debt held by the public: $929,869,000,000
Intragovernmental Holdings: $32,000,000
Notes
[http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/com/comnotes.htm]
Debt held by the public: $1,631,283,000,000
Intragovernmental Holdings: $34,000,000
Bonds
[http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/com/combonds.htm]
Debt held by the public: $585,436,000,000
Intragovernmental Holdings: $310,000,000
Inflation Indexed Notes
[http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/com/cominote.htm]
Debt held by the public: $108,517,000,000
Intragovernmental Holdings $0
Inflation Indexed Bonds:
[http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/com/combondi.htm]
Debt held by the public: $45,874,000,000
Intragovernmental Holdings: $0
Federal Financing Bank
[http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdfaq.htm#opdfaq34]
Debt held by the public: $0
Intragovernmental Holdings: $15,000,000,000
Nonmarketable:
Domestic Series
[http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/com/comdom.htm]
Debt held by the public: $29,995,000,000
Intragovernmental Holdings: $0
Foreign Series
[http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/com/comfor.htm]
Debt held by the public: $12,207,000,000
Intragovernmental Holdings: $0
R.E.A. Series:
[http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/spe/speinfo.htm]
Debt held by the public: $1,000,000
Intragovernmental Holdings: $0
State and Local Government Series:
[http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/com/comslg.htm]
Debt held by the public: $145,741,000,000
Intragovernmental Holdings: $0
United States Savings Securities
[http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/sav/sav.htm]
Debt held by the public: $197,721,000,000
Intragovernmental Holdings: $0
Government Account Series
[http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/com/comgas.htm]
Debt held by the public: $12,079,000,000
Intragovernmental Holdings: $2,742,160,000,000
Other:
Debt held by the public: $4,121,000,000
Intragovernmental Holdings: $0
Now, as to who specifically holds these holdings, if you visit
Treasury Bulletin at http://www.fms.treas.gov/bulletin/index.html
there is a breakdown of the various holdings and the percentages being
held by specific institutions. All of these will require MS Word to
view.
Thanks again for your question If you need any additional
information, please let me know prior to rating my answer.
Regards,
-THV
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References:
The Public Debt Online
http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opd.htm
Bureau of the Public Debt Online
http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/bpd/bpdhome.htm
United States Department of the Treasury
http://www.treas.gov/ |
