Because you randomly decided to focus on the Bank of Japan holdings
instead of the broader fact that foreigners only hold about 8% of Japanese debt, the rest is held through other domestic holders.
This is the first time that number has been put in this thread to my knowledge. BTW, I don't hold that subscription and don't see a way to see for free the number you cite.
If I take you at your word, then we do have a reason to say that less of Japan's debt is in foreign hands than the US's, though the proportion (to GDP) of debt held in
national government hands seems to be similar.
If you felt that way, why bring it up in the first place?
"it would be misleading"
what's stopping me from taking out more debt with myself since I know I won't collect it?
The ability to take out domestic debt is not unlimited.
You said the U.S. was increasing Gold stocks, when that isn't the case.
No, no I did not. Please attempt to maintain at least a 3rd grade level of reading comprehension while you look for gotcha opportunities.
(To aid you, I will provide an example of reading comprehension. The original text reads, "But what you
did say was that the US has "also not been acquiring Gold like other central banks." To which I replied,
and this is the only point I'm trying to make with respect to this particular topic, that you shouldn't mention
this and only this fact about the gold reserves (i.e. without mentioning overall gold holdings) because it's misleading. It would be entirely correct to state that China and Japan both have much larger overall forex reserves than the US does. It would also be currently correct to say that they are both increasing their reserves faster than the US is increasing its own, though all three do appear to be increasing lately."
(Sentence 1: restatement of your previous statement that the US gold stockpile is not increasing.
(Sentence 2: restatement of my previous statement that saying this in the wrong context may mislead people as to the relative strength of the US gold stockpile.
(Sentence 3: new statement that China and Japan have larger overall forex reserves (i.e., not just gold) than the US.
(Sentence 4: new statement that "they are both" (i.e., China and Japan are both) "increasing their reserves faster than the US is increasing its own, though all three do appear to be increasing lately". The proper interpretation of "its own" is "its own reserves", and in turn "reserves" is properly interpreted as "overall forex reserves" in deference to the previous sentence. Note also that nowhere in the paragraph do I breathe a word of disagreement about the opening sentence that reiterated the claim that the US gold stockpile is not increasing. Therefore it would be silly to read the last sentence as being a contrary claim of fact when the natural interpretation is that the US's "overall forex reserves" are increasing, which is perfectly consistent with the idea that its gold reserves remain static; in such a case the increase would be coming from non-gold sources.)