Foreign-Controlled American Debt
July 2006
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Federal Government
Bureau of Economic Analysis
U.S.
International Transactions: First Quarter 2006 Current Account
(June 2006)
Federal Reserve
Understanding
U.S. Cross-Border Securities Data (Federal Reserve Bulletin,
2006).
Remarks
by Governor Ben S. Bernanke At the Homer Jones Lecture, St.
Louis, Missouri
Updates speech given on March 10, 2005, at the Sandridge Lecture,
Virginia Association of Economists, Richmond, Virginia April 14,
2005
The Global Saving Glut and the U.S. Current Account Deficit
Remarks
by Chairman Alan Greenspan - Central Bank panel discussion To
the International Monetary Conference, Beijing, People’s Republic
of China (via satellite) June 6, 2005
Federal Reserve – New York
Policy
Implications of Global Imbalances - Timothy F. Geithner, President
and Chief Executive Officer
Remarks at the Global Financial Imbalances Conference at Chatham
House, London (January 23, 2006)
Federal Reserve – Richmond
Research
Spotlight: Should We Worry about the Current Account Deficit?
(Winter 2006)
Federal Reserve – St. Louis
How
Dangerous Is the U.S. Current Account Deficit? William Poole*
- President, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Economic Policy Lecture Series Lindenwood University St. Charles,
Mo. (Nov. 9, 2005)
Treasury Department
The Treasury
International Capital System for May 2006 - United States Transactions
with Foreigners in Long-Term Securities
(July 18, 2006)
Treasury International
Capital System
United
States Transactions with Foreigners in Long-Term Securities by Country
Chart CM-C
-- Net Purchases of Long-Term Domestic Securities by Foreigners,
Selected Countries (March 2006)
Report on Foreign
Portfolio Holdings of U.S. Securities as of June 30, 2005
Congressional Research Service Reports
Is the
U.S. Current Account Deficit Sustainable? (December 13, 2005)
Is the
U.S. Trade Deficit Caused by a Global Saving Glut? (November
4, 2005)
Nongovernment Organizations
Economy in Crisis
Foreign Financing of US Government Debt
Economic Policy Institute (EPI)
U.S.
current account deficit improves in first quarter (June 2006)
U.S.
current account deficit breaks record at 7% of GDP (March 14,
2006)
Soaring
federal government payments to foreign lenders (March 2006)
Foreign Affairs
How
Scary Is the Deficit? Brad Setser et al.
From Foreign Affairs, July/August 2005
Our Money, Our Debt, Our Problem
Brad Setser and Nouriel Roubini
The
Overstretch Myth (March/April 2005)
David H. Levey and Stuart S. Brown
Global
Imbalances and Asian Financial Markets University of California,
Berkeley (29-30 September 2005)
Institute for International Economics
Catherine L. Mann
Commentary:
The End of Large Current Account Deficits 1970 – 2002 Are
there Lessons for the United States? (August 2005)
US
National Security and Foreign Direct Investment
by Edward M. Graham and David M. Marchick (May 2006)
US
Current Account Deficit
Foreign
Investment in the United States
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Is the Current Account
Deficit Sustainable? Maurice Obstfeld, Kenneth Rogoff
NBER Working Paper No. 10869 Issued in (November 2004) Requires
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