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- What Higher Savings Means for the Economy
- Americans find themselves in a situation economists describe as 'The Paradox of Thrift:' Saving is good for the household, but bad for the overall economy.
- Videos 2009-03-10
- Is Saving More a Good Thing?
- Americans have cut down dramatically on spending and ratcheted up their savings rates. And while that's good for the economy long term, helping to finance valuable investment, in the short term, it's only making our economic woes worse…A recent store visit underscores just how dramatically spending habits have changed in...
- Articles 2009-03-09
- The Fruits of Frugality
- Despite our recent history, Americans haven't always been spendthrifts: from 1950 to 1992, the saving rate averaged 8.6 percent. What a return to a savings rate that high might look like in terms of social habits, the country's mood, and our position in the world…In the wake of the...
- Articles 2009-03-17
- 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....
- Articles 2009-03-24
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- JP MORGAN: HIGH SAVINGS RATE MAY HURT CHINA'S ROI
- AsiaInfo Services 11-29-2006 JP Morgan: High Savings Rate May Hurt China's ROI HONG KONG, Nov 29, 2006 SinoCast via COMTEX -- JP Morgan Chase believes that the high national savings rate in China will reduce the return on investment in the...
- Research articles 2006-11-29
- Why the falling savings rate makes sense.
- This article discusses two seemingly conflicting trends that have been occurring over the last few years, the falling savings rate and the rising net worth. The differences between how individuals and the U.S. Commerce Department calculate a savings rate are explored. Two seemingly conflicting trends have been occurring over...
- Research articles 1999-10-01
- Americans' savings rate drops to Depression era–low
- WASHINGTON AFP — Americans spent more than they earned last year as the economy steamed ahead, pushing the personal savings rate to negative 1.0 percent, the deepest hole since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The figure, published last week by the US Commerce Department, means that not only...
- Research articles 2007-02-04
- Increased Spending by Americans Leads to Drop in National Savings Rate.
- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 3--By spending more money than they earned in September, Americans brought the national savings rate to its lowest level since the Great Depression, the U.S. Commerce Department reported Monday. The savings rate was a negative 0.2 percent...
- Research articles 1998-11-02
- Commentary: Does savings rate drop hurt economy?
- (This article originally appeared in The Daily Record, Baltimore, MD, another Dolan Media publication.)The Commerce Department recently announced the nation's personal savings rate, calculated as a percentage of disposable (or after- tax) personal income, had fallen to a negative number for the first time since October 2001. The national savings...
- Research articles 2005-11-03
- U.S. Savings Rate To Increase, Finally
- Chad Brand submits: In recent years much has been made about how the savings rate in this country was hovering around or even below zero. More and more, Americans have been living beyond their means via credit. With some banks reeling from extending credit to people they should not...
- External links 2008-08-08
- ADVISORY/U.S. Savings Rate Hits 60-Year Low
- ADVISORY... --BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 2, 1998-- TOPIC: The U.S. consumers' savings rate dropped to a negative level in September, the Commerce Department announced Monday. The drop is due to consumers spending more despite a minor increase in income. The savings rate registered at -0.2 percent and is the first...
- Research articles 1998-11-02
- Cigna forms education alliance to jump-start retirement savings in America; Four communications experts to increase national savings rate in alliance complementing new campaign by U.S. Department of Labor
- WASHINGTON--BUSINESS WIRE--July 19, 1995--CIGNA Retirement & Investment Services today announced it has formed an alliance of leading workplace communications experts to develop innovative strategies designed to increase America's personal savings rate from a current low 4 percent of after-tax income.
- Research articles 1995-07-19
- MetLife Believes Negative Savings Rate is a Bellwether for the Future of the American Dream
- NEW YORK -- MetLife, a leading insurance and financial services company, believes today's announcement by the Commerce Department about the negative U.S. savings rate, which is at its lowest level in 70 years, is a bellwether for the future of the American dream. The lack of savings, combined with the...
- Research articles 2007-02-01
- Personal Savings Rate Jumps: Did Yours?
- The personal savings rate jumped to 6.9 percent in May, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. While there is much debate about how to accurately measure household savings, clearly people are spending less. The question is, are you actually saving more? It's one thing to...
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- U.S. Savings Rate Surges Higher: A Shift in Consumer Behavior
- Sean Maher submits: Friday's announcement that the US savings rate has hit an annualized 6.9%, the highest in 15 years albeit boosted by transfer payments, confirms my view that we are seeing a huge cultural shift in US consumer behavior. One of the mysteries of the slump has been...
- External links 2009-06-28
- Higher Savings Rate Shouldn't Affect GDP, But It Will Anyway
- Much ink has been spilled recently bemoaning the sudden rapid increase in U.S. households’ saving rates. From an abysmal low of -0.5% in January of 2006, the savings rate has rocketed up to 6.9% in May. Many commentators fret that the sudden increase in savings will offset an equal amount...
- External links 2009-07-10
- May savings rate hits another all-time low
- The Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The nation's savings rate hit another all-time low in May as Americans' spending rose faster than their income. Economists said the figures give the Fed more ammunition to justify an expected interest rate increase this week. Consumer spending, which repeatedly has...
- Research articles 1999-06-29
- The Rise in U.S. Savings Rate Has Only Begun
- David Goldman submits: In a recent post entitled, “The Stealth Deterioration in Asset Quality,” I argued that the rise in the US savings rate had only begun. That implies falling consumption, a weak housing market, and an L-shaped recession as far as the eye can see. That is just...
- External links 2009-06-28
- Double Digit Canadian Savings Rate Unlikely - UBS
- FP Trading Desk submits: It's on the rise, but a Canadian savings rate north of 10% remains unlikely, according to George Vasic, UBS strategist. He said in a research note: by FP Trading Desk
- External links 2009-07-06
- Americans' Savings Keep Growing Fatter in Lean Times
- After gorging ourselves on enough home-equity, credit-card and auto-loan debt to choke Jabba the Hut, many of us are feeding our savings accounts more in tighter times than reveling in wanton, unbridled consumption. Americans' personal savings rate rose to 3.3 percent last month from 2.8% in August,...
- Blog posts 2009-10-30
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