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Are You Saving Too Much?: The economic crisis has driven families to rediscover a long-forgotten American virtue: thrift. Ironically, that's exactly what the economy doesn't need right now.The message from the Administration and the U.S. Treasury couldn't be clearer: Please start spending again, America. Your economy needs you. But we haven't been listening....; Tags: Economy, MoneyWatch, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Savings Rate, Household Debt, Consumption, Paradox of Thrift, Recession, Recovery, Great Depression, Nesting, Home Sizes, Bankruptcy, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Center for Thrift and Generosity, Savings Programs, MoneyWatch Feature Package; Articles 2009-03-24

The Lost Culture of Saving: Social scientist Barbara Dafoe Whitehead discusses the institutions and forces that conspire against saving, and how we can change them. According to Whitehead, shortsighted government policy and a financial system based on greed turned Americans away from thrift… Even before it was fashionable, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead was proselytizing about the...; Tags: Bank, Lottery, Debt, MoneyWatch, States, Government, Financial Services, ATM, Sales Channel, Vertical Industries, Networking, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Saving, Thrift, Consumer Spending, MoneyWatch Q&A, Thrift Savings Plans, Retirement Planning, Retirement Income, Savings, Paradox of Thrift, Cait Murphy; Articles 2009-03-05
Boys vs. girls: As a long-time fan of Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, I was disappointed by the errors in "The Boy Problem" (May 5). Whitehead asserts that the gender gap has developed not because "the boys of today are lagging behind the boys of yesterday [but because] the girls of today have surpassed the...; Tags: Associated Press, calculus; Research articles 2006-06-02