Browse Stacks: Government: Fed Reserve: The Fed's Financial Accounts: What Is Uncle Sam's Largest Asset? - dshort - Advisor Perspectives

Student loans may be a liability on the consumer balance sheet, but they constitute an asset for Uncle Sam. Just how big? It's 50.6 percent of the total Federal assets. This is 9.2 times larger than the 5.5 percent for the Total Mortgages outstanding and 5.8 times the size of Taxes Receivable at 8.8 percent.