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Chart of the Week: Week 42, 2013: Holders of US Debt

posted on October 16, 2013

As the deadline for the US Government to reach an agreement on the debt ceiling looms (it is, in theory at least, the 17th of October), we take a look at who holds most of the debt, and what that means in the face of a potential default.

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