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Top Customer: Under Obama, Fed’s Holdings of U.S. Debt Have Jumped 452%
CNSNews.com ^ | 6/7/2012 | Terence P. Jeffrey

Posted on 06/10/2012 8:41:41 PM PDT by Beave Meister

(CNSNews.com) - Since President Barack Obama was inaugurated in January 2009, the Federal Reserve’s holdings of U.S. government debt have quintupled, according to the Fed’s official monthly balance sheet.

On Jan. 28, 2009, a week after Obama’s nomination, the Fed owned $302 billion in U.S. Treasury securities. On April 25, 2012, the latest date reported, the Fed owned five and a half time that much in U.S. Treasury securities--$1.668 trillion.

That is an increase from January 2009 of $1.366 trillion—or 452 percent.

Under Obama, the Federal Reserve has become the single largest owner of U.S. government debt. When Obama entered office, entities in the People’s Republic of China were the largest holders, followed by entities in Japan. At the end of January 2009, China owned $739.6 billion in U.S. government debt and Japan owned $634.8 billion.

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KEYWORDS: 2012; bernanke; bonds; china; congress; corruption; democrats; economy; fed; federalreserve; fraud; government; japan; liberals; obama; obamatruthfile; usdebt; ustreasurysecurities
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To: Beave Meister; HangnJudge; spokeshave; FlingWingFlyer; Quix; Alamo-Girl; M. Espinola; whitedog57; ..
Speaks for Itself:

Fed's Wall Street Bailout: A Huge $ 9 Trillion Disaster

21 posted on 06/19/2012 11:10:53 AM PDT by ex-Texan (Ecclesiastes 5:10 - 20)
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To: Sgt_Schultze
The US has the authority to issue money. If it issued money, it wouldn't have to pay interest or even repay it.

That might be a bit inflationary.

So instead of issuing the money itself, the government borrows the money from a private bank which issues the notes and charges us interest. What a racket.

And then....wait for it....the "private bank" gives all its earnings, after expenses, back to the government. What a racket.

22 posted on 06/20/2012 12:07:07 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Math is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: hosepipe
The fed are private (FOR PROFIT) Banks.. with stockholders and everything.. It is a BUSINESS.

That's awful! How much did the "stockholders" earn on their stock last year? How much did the US Treasury earn from the Fed last year?

23 posted on 06/20/2012 12:09:58 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Math is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: F15Eagle

“There is no human way to fix this”

Do the same as Germany did, CANCEL THE NATIONAL DEBT!

Everyione holding T bills just is given a lifetime supply of toilet paper!


24 posted on 06/20/2012 12:19:23 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: F15Eagle
there’s still the derivatives which dwarf the national debt by a huge margin.

Since derivatives aren't debt, so what?

26 posted on 06/21/2012 7:28:48 AM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Math is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: Toddsterpatriot
That might be a bit inflationary.

There is no difference on (money supply) inflation between the federal government creating money through issue and the federal reserve creating money through issue. The difference is that by having the fed do it, we also incur interest costs, which would not be the case through direct issue.

27 posted on 06/21/2012 8:02:57 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: Beave Meister

Poor Bush had to peddle debt it to China.

Baraq and Timmy just hand it to Benny B.


28 posted on 06/21/2012 8:07:45 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Beave Meister

Poor Bush had to peddle debt to China.

Baraq and Timmy just hand it to Benny B.


29 posted on 06/21/2012 8:08:13 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Sgt_Schultze
There is no difference on (money supply) inflation between the federal government creating money through issue and the federal reserve creating money through issue.

A major difference is actions that could be undertaken if inflation takes off.

If the Treasury issued the money directly, there's nothing the Treasury can do.

If the Fed created the money, they can sell the bonds and extinguish the proceeds.

The difference is that by having the fed do it, we also incur interest costs

Which the Fed rebates, after minor expenses, to the Treasury.

30 posted on 06/21/2012 8:15:20 AM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Math is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

answer: everything...


32 posted on 06/25/2012 7:15:52 PM PDT by hosepipe
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To: Beave Meister
Let's not give all the credit to Obamagabe....there's a whole lot of career politicians that helped him achieve this goal. I will never forgive the republicans in Congress who played tough and then caved for each increase in the limit.
33 posted on 06/25/2012 7:27:22 PM PDT by liberalh8ter (If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
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To: hosepipe

I know, the Treasury got about $80 billion.


34 posted on 06/25/2012 7:41:03 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Math is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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