{"id":40283,"date":"2014-02-21T17:12:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T22:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=40283"},"modified":"2014-02-21T17:12:37","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T22:12:37","slug":"video-off-the-charts-no-surprise-fed-was-biggest-buyer-of-treasuries-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2014\/02\/21\/video-off-the-charts-no-surprise-fed-was-biggest-buyer-of-treasuries-in-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Off The Charts: No Surprise, Fed Was Biggest Buyer Of Treasuries In 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"grabDiv1767162\"><script language=\"javascript\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/js\/Player.js?id=1767162&#038;content=v5e7587be688398ecfec4e623535d27631839aec4&#038;width=542&#038;height=304&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"overlay-adzone\" style=\"overflow:hidden; position:relative\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Federal Reserve financed most of the government\u2019s deficit in 2013, in sharp contrast to the year before, when the Fed did not add to its holdings of Treasury securities. The American private sector appears to have been a net seller of Treasuries in 2013, but the foreign private sector was a substantial buyer, according to government estimates released this week. In 2013, the government issued a net $759 billion in Treasury securities to the public.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/images.grab-media.com\/wochit_business\/2014\/02\/21\/08e55a361ebf3f06298c346e3ff1047518771f72_thumbnail.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p><!--post_img[http:\/\/images.grab-media.com\/wochit_business\/2014\/02\/21\/08e55a361ebf3f06298c346e3ff1047518771f72_preview.jpg]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Reserve financed most of the government\u2019s deficit in 2013, in sharp contrast to the year before, when the Fed did not add to its holdings of Treasury securities. The American private sector appears to have been a net seller of Treasuries in 2013, but the foreign private sector was a substantial buyer, according &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2014\/02\/21\/video-off-the-charts-no-surprise-fed-was-biggest-buyer-of-treasuries-in-2013\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VIDEO: Off The Charts: No Surprise, Fed Was Biggest Buyer Of Treasuries In 2013&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}