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Why is the Chinese Savings Rate 50 Percent of GDP, While Ours is Less Than three Percent of Disposable Income?

By Bill Watkins
Tuesday May 11, 2010

The question has merit, but I came to it by a roundabout process. I was thinking about how our savings rate is low and falling. After all, we have lots of reasons to save: We’ve lost huge amounts of wealth over the past couple of years, and many people, especially Baby Boomers anticipating retirement, are… Read more

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