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Consumerism

Dude, where’s my savings?

September 29, 2009

Is anyone else alarmed that savings rate and economic growth have been so negatively correlated for the last 20 years? Does anyone wonder, after looking at a chart like this, if the American economy has managed to create anything “real” in the last 20 years? We like to imagine that economic growth is driven by [...]

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