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		digitalengineer on Oct 7, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A U.S. Default Seen as Catastrophe Dwarfing Lehman... >when the US fails to find enough buyers in a round of debt sales Doesn't the US itself already buy up the largest part of their own debt?

cdash on Oct 7, 2013 [–]

Yes, it does.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Estimated...

I don't know where an up to date image is but that goes to 2008.

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