FIGURE 11.1 US gross capital flows by year 1977–2009. This figure obtains data from the US Treasury International Capital (TIC) data at www.
treasury.gov/tic. Each month, we add the gross purchases by foreigners from US residents and gross sales by foreigners to US residents of longterm
domestic and foreign securities (in US$ millions). These long-term securities include marketable US Treasury and Federal Financing Bank
bonds and notes, bonds of US governments, corporations and federally sponsored agencies, US corporate and other bonds, US corporate stocks and
foreign bonds and stocks. The series starts in January 1977 and ends in November 2009