Quote Originally Posted by briarz View Post
Excuse me for my financial and economic ignorance but can anybody explain to me why Ireland has such a major holding of United States Treasury Securities.

http://www.treas.gov/tic/mfh.txt

Perhaps it is not that high but 54.7 billion seems like a lot for a small country like ours. Also, if this figure is correct is there any possibility of liquidating these bonds before maturity, perhaps by off-loading them to a third party?

Again, apologies if I am being naive or missing something here.
curious that the holdings have increased by $37.1 Billion YoY

That would be major support in arresting the dollars decline in value.....

CIA must have some fronting bank down in the IFSC lapping the worthless junk up....