💰 $39 TRILLION IN DEBT — HERE'S EXACTLY WHO THE US OWES



Here's the complete breakdown of the $39 trillion debt:

→ US banks, investment accounts and retirement funds — ~$19 trillion (Americans and Wall Street hold the majority)

🏛️ US Government savings accounts — ~$7.3 trillion (the government borrowed money from its own programs and owes it back)

🏦 Federal Reserve — ~$4.5 trillion

💰 Social Security Trust Fund — $2.4 trillion (money set aside for your parents' retirement — loaned to the government)

→ Japan — $1.1 trillion (the foreign country holding the most US debt)

→ United Kingdom — $809 billion

→ China — $759 billion

→ Canada — ~$350 billion

→ Ireland — ~$330 billion (not Ireland's money — just large investment funds based there)

→ Belgium — ~$320 billion (similarly — investment funds use Belgium as a base, not the Belgian government)

→ Luxembourg — ~$280 billion

→ Switzerland — ~$290 billion

→ Taiwan — ~$250 billion

→ India — ~$240 billion

→ Brazil — ~$230 billion

→ Saudi Arabia — ~$125 billion

➤Total foreign creditors: $9.4 trillion, a record high

➤Total domestic creditors: ~$29.6 trillion — 76% of total debt

👉BOTTOM LINE: America owes ITSELF 76 cents on every dollar owed.

China owns 2.1%.

The US Federal Reserve owns more than China, Japan and Britain combined.
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