The U.S. national debt is 9.1 trillion dollars.
Here's the U.S. National Debt Clock. Here's Ross Perot talking about the 4.1 trillion dollar national debt in 1992. He was right to be concerned. 4.1 trillion dollars was a huge debt. In 15 years, the debt has gone from 4.1 trillion to 9.1 trillion.
The problem is that a politician who ignores
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How odd, since one source I was looking at claimed that Japan owns most of our debt.
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Of that $9 trillion, about $4 trillion is owed to other parts of the US government (e.g. Social Security). Of the remaining debt, about 25% is owed to foreign governments (details). Japan, China, and the UK are the top ones.
The rest is owed to other investors in US treasury bonds, including state and local governments, private investors, pension funds, etc.
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