# Foreign U.S. Treasury Holders: Big Moves by France and Norway. December 2018

# Overview

• Norway almost doubled its long-term treasury position in December 2018.
• France sold holdings accumulated over the previous months.
• Ireland trimmed holdings down to 2016 levels in the aftermath of the overseas corporate tax changes.

# Dataset

• TIC Data.

# Keywords

offset, delta, merge-columns, csv

# Graphics

• Top-N countries by U.S. debt holdings, November 2018.

• Reversal by France.

• Norway goes shopping.

• Ireland tax flows.

# Syntax Features

• merge-columns setting to merge multiple series into one row.

# merge base and offset series into a single row, one per country
merge-columns = a.tags.country == b.tags.country

• time-offset setting to load series with a time lag.

[series]
  # load series with 1 month lag
  time-offset = 1 month  

• csv setting to create a list of objects with the same properties for iteration.

csv offsets = alias,offset,label
      now,0 month,Now
      m1,1 month,1 month ago
      y1,1 year,1 year ago
      y3,3 year,3 years ago
      y5,5 year,5 years ago
endcsv