Chart of the Week: Savings as a % of Disposable Personal Income
The U.S. savings rate has plummeted since 1980, from over 10% to under 1%.
Savings as a % of Disposable Personal Income
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Source: Detroit News
AP reports that “every American man, woman and child” owes $145,000. That is the cost of the long-term promises the U.S. government has made to creditors, retirees, veterans and the poor. That doesn’t include “credit card bills, mortgages -- all the debt we've racked up personally.”
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"All progress is based upon a
universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its
income."
-Samuel Butler
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That number has to be viewed in light of the fact that the government can break promises to old people, veterans, and the poor without hurting its credit rating. All it takes is the right number of votes.
Posted by: royce | Aug 29, 2005 3:55:52 PM
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