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(CNSNews.com) - At the close of business on Tuesday, the debt of the authorities realized $15 billion for the first time--with the biggest single owner of the widely held part of that debt being the Federal Reserve. In the last year, whilst the Federal Reserve enormously increased its holdings of U.S. Organizations and Treasury securities in China slightly reduced theirs, the Fed exceeded the Chinese whilst the operator of widely held U.S. government debt. In its latest regular statement, the Federal Reserve stated that by Sept. 28, it possessed $1.665 billion in U.S. Treasury securities. Which was significantly more than double the $812 million in U.S. Treasury investments the Fed said it possessed by Sept. 29, 2010. Meanwhile, by the finish of the September, organizations in mainland China possessed $1.1483 billion in U.S. Treasury investments, based on information released today by the U.S. Treasury Department. Which was down somewhat from the $1.1519 billion in U.S. Treasury investments the Chinese possessed by the finish of September 2010, based on the same Treasury Department survey. Ergo, at the conclusion of September 2010, the Chinese possessed about $339.9 million more in U.S. Treasury investments compared to Fed possessed in those days. By the finish of September 2011, the Fed possessed about $516.7 million more in U.S. Treasury investments compared to Chinese possessed. The U.S. Treasury Department splits the national government's debt in to two basic categories: debt held by the publicthe kind possessed by the Chinese and the Federal Reserveand 'intragovernmental debt,' which includes what basically are IOUs the Treasury offers to government trust funds like the Social Security trust when it requires and uses their money on other activities. The present whole national debt of $15.0336 trillion, noted by the Treasury today, includes roughly $10.3145 trillion in debt held by the general public and $4.7191 trillion in intragovernmental debt. The mixed $2.8133 billion in U.S. government debt held by the general public that's now possessed by the Federal Reserve and the Chinese equals over 27 percent of U.S. government debt held by the general public. Currently, international organizations, including these in China, own $4.6603 billion of the U.S. government debt held by the general public. These international organizations, with the Federal Reserve, own a mixed $6.3253 billion of the U.S. government's debt held by the general public. That $6.3253 billion in Federal Reserve-and-foreign-held debt means over 61 percent of the U.S. government's publicly held debt. http://cnsnews.com/news/article/fed-...rpassing-china