foreign debt

John K. Taber jktaber at onramp.net
Tue Sep 22 03:54:43 PDT 1998


Brad De Long wrote: [snip]
> Now, of course, we still need the foreign investors to be willing to hold
> the debt on reasonable terms (and the debt is of *very* short duration, so
> the U.S. government is *very* vulnerable), [snip]

Could you explain this a little bit for my benefit? "Very short duration" seems to mean T-bills and cash managements. Is that right, and is that the major part of the debt?

And what is the vulnerability? That, the debt holders will opt out of reinvesting in treasuries? Or, is there more?

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