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The Fed’s financial accounts: What are Uncle Sam’s largest assets?

Jill Mislinski  |  October 4, 2021

By Jill Mislinski, includes “… A stunning chart that continues to haunt us illustrates the rapid growth in federal loans to students since the onset of the great recession. … The student loan bubble, the biggest slice in Uncle Sam's asset pie, will haunt us for many years to come.” (Note: Introducing the balance sheet, the Financial Report of the U.S. Government offers the following “comforting” words: “There are, however, other significant resources available to the government that extend beyond the assets presented in these Balance Sheets. Those resources include stewardship PP&E in addition to the government’s sovereign powers to tax and set monetary policy.”)

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