Dollar bond investors have a problem. America’s budget surpluses are slowly killing off the US treasury market. Foreigners hold over 40% of privately held, marketable US treasury debt. That comes to about 18% of America’s GDP. Most projections show that all US treasury debt will fall to much less than that within 10 years. And the White House goes even further. It’s saying that America’s national debt will vanish by 2015.
Taking up the slack will be the country’s GSEs – or government-sponsored enterprises – which will overtake the US treasury for the first time next year in the amount of debt outstanding in the market.
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