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WSJ | Basel's Sovereign-Debt Bubble
How banking regulations help create systemic risk.
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Political Calculations | Winter 2011 Edition: Who Owns the U.S. National Debt?
As of the end of the U.S. federal government's 2011 fiscal year on 30 September 2011, the United States' total public debt outstanding was recorded to be approximately $14.790 trillion. From the end of the U.S. government's Fiscal Year 2010, the amount of the U.S. national debt has increased by 9.1% in just one year, or $1.2 trillion.
