The Federal Reserve Now Owns $2.4 Trillion In U.S. Treasuries & China $1.2 Trillion What Happens When They Stop Buying? By: Louis Cammarosano May 25 2014
Foreign Holdings of U.S. Treasuries Here is a list of the largest foreign holders of U.S. Treasuries as of March 2014 (click to enlarge): Why Foreign Nations Hold U.S. Treasuries The United States dollar became the world’s reserve currency in 1944 towards the end of World War II. For a short history of the Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944 that established the gold standard that would back the dollar as the world’s reserve currency and the subsequent removal of the gold standard in 1971 and the creation of the “petro dollar” that maintained the dollar’s world reserve currency status,