ANALYSIS

As of March 2009, foreign investors held $3.265 trillion of the publicly held debt, a historic high, according to the Concord Coalition, a nonpartisan fiscal policy organization. The coalition reports that foreign holdings of U.S. Treasury securities have increased by more than $1 trillion since 2000. On April 5, the Treasury reported that the publicly held debt was $8.3 trillion of the total national debt of $12.7 trillion.