In: Economic Issues, Problems and Perspectives
Intro -- FEDERAL DEBT, INTEREST COSTS AND THE DEBT LIMIT -- FEDERAL DEBT, INTEREST COSTS AND THE DEBT LIMIT -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: FEDERAL DEBT AND INTEREST COSTS -- INTRODUCTION -- SUMMARY -- Debt Held by the Public -- Other Measures of Federal Debt -- Interest Payments and Receipts -- DEBT HELD BY THE PUBLIC -- Trends in Debt Held by the Public -- Types and Amounts of Treasury Debt Held by the Public -- Marketable Securities -- Auctions -- Borrowing Schedule -- Bills -- Notes -- Bonds -- Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities -- Maturity -- Seasonality -- Nonmarketable Securities -- Savings Bonds -- EE/E Bonds -- Other Types of Savings Bonds -- State and Local Government Series -- Thrift Savings Plan -- Zero-Coupon Bonds and Other Nonmarketable Securities -- Reasons for Borrowing Other than Budget Deficits -- Credit Programs -- Student Loans -- Purchases of Mortgage-Backed Securities -- Supplementary Financing Program -- Other Factors Affecting the Treasury's Borrowing -- Ownership of Federal Debt Held by the Public -- Domestic Ownership -- Foreign Ownership -- U.S. Debt Compared with that of Other Countries -- OTHER MEASURES OF FEDERAL DEBT -- Debt Held by the Public Net of Financial Assets -- Cash -- Credit Programs -- Gross Federal Debt -- Debt Subject to Limit -- What the Debt Limit Covers -- Options for the Treasury When Debt Approaches the Limit -- Suspending Sales of Nonmarketable Securities -- Trimming or Delaying Auctions of Marketable Securities -- Suspending Issuance of Maturing Cash Management Bills in the Supplementary Financing Program -- Suspending Flows and Redeeming Securities in Government Accounts -- Swapping Debt with the Federal Financing Bank -- Consequences of Having a Limit on Debt -- INTEREST PAYMENTS AND RECEIPTS
In: Economic issues, problems and perspectives
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