Oh, FRiend— they didn’t give anything to our Treasury. We are a client state for the private bankers. And they are of course linked internationally in sovereign debt holdings and the “trading” of the same debt instruments.
This is why the “musical chairs” of the EU crises, etc. waiting to see what country (Greece, Cyprus, Ireland, Spain...in the list of instances) get’s left without a chair when the “music” of debt service and electronic subsidy stops.
All smoke and mirrors.
Sure they did. $89 billion.