Learn the facts about cold sores so you can face every cold sore with confidenceâfrom the first tingle until itâs bye-bye blister. 1  Most nonprescription treatments work the same way. 2  Cold sores are only contagious when you can see a blister. 3  The cold sore virus (HSV-1) cannot spread beyond the lip area.
It came up with a total debt of $2 trillion for all states. California still owes the most under the alternative computation, but the state's total debt drops significantly, to $307 billion. With the Pew numbers, New Jersey follows with $183 billion of debt and Illinois is next at $150 billion.
Treasury data show that over the past year, China's U.S. debt holdings dropped by $49.2 billion, while Japan's increased by $13.6 billion.China had been buying Treasuries as a way to keep its currency, the yuan, pegged to the U.S. dollar.loser to home, there's another major buyer of U.S. debt: the Federal Reserve. At last count the central bank owned around $2.5 trillion worth of Treasuries, up from around $800 billion at the end of 2007.