Slimming for the Beach

Who would have thought it? Ire­land owns part of the US debt, accord­ing to a scary arti­cle in The Daily Tele­graph. As of June 2007, for­eign­ers owned $6,007bn of long-term US debt. (Equal to 66pc of the entire US fed­eral debt). The biggest hold­ings by coun­try are, in bil­lions: Japan (901), China (870), UK (475), Lux­em­bourg (424), Cay­man Islands (422), Bel­gium (369), Ire­land (176), Ger­many (155), Switzer­land (140), Bermuda (133), …Read the Rest