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New Paper Looks at Changing Foreign Demand for U.S. Debt In a working paper, The United States and Its Creditors: Assessing Foreign Demand for U.S. Assets, from the Brookings Institution’s Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, authors Anusha Chari and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti discuss shifts in demand for U.S. Treasuries and how these shifts may impact the stability of the Treasury market and economy at large. https://www.crfb.org/blogs/new-paper-looks-changing-foreign-demand-us-debt  Sept 2026

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US Fiscal Dominance, the Coming Fiscal Inflection Point, and How Congress Can Fix the Debt Crisis (Before It’s Too Late) 

Last week on Capitol Hill, we discussed a risk that is becoming more real every day that Congress delays fixing the debt: fiscal dominance—when rising federal debt pushes the Federal Reserve to prioritize financing government spending over controlling inflation.

Romina Boccia, Director of Budget and Entitlement Policy, CATO, February 23, 2026





https://www.cato.org/blog/us-fiscal-dominance-coming-fiscal-inflection-point-how-congress-can-fix-debt-crisis-its-too?utm_campaign=Cato_Today&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Cato_Email&utm_content=260225-Cato_Today

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