Not a day goes by that one does not here or read some story about the importance of foreign creditors to the U.S. government’s funding needs.  It’s a story well worth a listen too, for foreign creditors hold nearly half of the U.S. Treasury’s publicly sold debt.  And with the U.S. government currently sporting trillion dollar deficits, foreign creditors may be more important to the U.S. government now then at any time in history.

THE CONTRARIAN TAKE offers up a monthly accounting of foreign investment demand for U.S. Treasury and government-guaranteed Agency debt.  If you are an investor or simply someone concerned about the ability of the U.S. government to finance its operations now and into the future, then you will want to track these metrics right along with me…

Foreign Investment Flows, April 2010

Historical Tables and Charts in PDF can be found here

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Learn more about the importance of foreign creditors to the U.S. government’s financing needs and possible end game for the U.S. government’s fiscal finances if foreign creditors lose their appetite for U.S. government debt in this 4 part series Tracking the U.S. government’s journey towards bankruptcy

Foreign Investment Flows into Treasuries/Agencies is one of several data series available on THE CONTRARIAN TAKE.  For the full series, click here on Economic Data and Charts, with an Austrian Slant.