Saving
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So, to reduce the trade deficit, households, businesses, and governments must increase their
saving
– obviously the preferred solution – or invest less.
They claim that America’s current-account deficit (or trade deficit), which is in fact the result of America’s low and falling
saving
rate, is an indicator of unfair trade practices by Germany and China, two current-account surplus countries.
The current-account balance, measuring the balance of trade in goods, services, net factor income, and transfer payments from abroad, is equal to national
saving
minus domestic investment.
A country runs a current-account deficit if investment exceeds national saving, and runs a surplus when investment is less than national
saving.
For a country with a balanced current account, a deficit can arise if its investment rate rises, its
saving
rate falls, or some combination of the two occurs.
The trade deficit could fall if the import barriers were in the form of trade taxes that lowered the budget deficit (thereby raising government saving) but that effect would work through the budget, not through trade policy per se.
There is no particular reason why a reduction of foreign trade barriers or an increase in US trade barriers would have any first-order effects on the US
saving
and investment rates, and therefore on the US current-account balance.
The US national
saving
rate – the sum of private
saving
plus government saving, measured as a share of GNI – has declined markedly during the past 30 years.
Most of the decline in the US
saving
rate is due to a decline in the government
saving
rate.
Both the Democratic and Republican parties are practitioners of populism, American-style: they repeatedly cut taxes, increase the public debt (which doubled from 35% of GDP in 2007 to 74% of GDP at the end of 2015), and generally blame somebody else for the slow US growth that arises from low
saving
and investment rates.
Europe has no interest in
saving
Assad from that dilemma.
But, unless all Europeans accept responsibility for
saving
the euro – and, with it, the EU – everything else is shallow rhetoric.
Bitcoin, with its capacity for anonymity, could certainly help to make the global financial system more secure,
saving
consumers and businesses significant inconvenience and expense.
Nandan Nilekani, the chairman of Infosys who left his job to create the system, known as Aadhaar, credits it with
saving
the Indian government roughly $9 billion by eliminating duplicate and false identities in government beneficiary lists.
This would encourage saving, which is crucial to building a business and providing investment capital to others.
To what extent do we hold on to our belief that when it comes to
saving
lives, medical care should be distributed on the basis of patients’ needs, not their wealth?
There are sure to be political disagreements within the ECB about
saving
one country’s banks through emergency EURO credits issued by the ECB.
The number of maternal deaths could fall by one-third,
saving
millions (in developing countries overall, maternal and new-born health-care savings could reach $5.7 billion).
Fears of future wealth taxes could discourage entrepreneurship and lower the
saving
rate.
Saving
the Egyptian RevolutionTEL AVIV – Revolutions throughout history have proven to devour their children.
The masses called for a revolution, while the army conducted its own coup d’etat in the hope of
saving
what is essential in the system while sacrificing the man who embodied it.
It helps to finance other countries’ trade deficits and domestic investment (many of its beneficiaries have large budget deficits that decrease national
saving
below domestic investment).
They are all part of an enormous multilateral trade deficit that stems from America’s unprecedented shortfall of
saving
– a depreciation-adjusted “net national
saving
rate” (combining businesses, households, and the government sector) that has been negative since 2008.
No leading country in world history has persistently maintained a negative
saving
rate.
Unless and until the US faces up to its chronic aversion to
saving
– namely, by reducing massive federal budget deficits and encouraging the rebuilding of severely depleted household
saving
– multilateral trade deficits will persist.
American families are hurting, and elected officials want to pin the blame on China, thereby deflecting attention from the difficult task of rebuilding saving, restoring competitiveness, and living within the country’s means.
In recent decades, financial assets have expanded dramatically relative to any measure of economic activity, as life expectancy increased and the post-WWII baby boomers began to think about
saving
for retirement.
But there would also be a positive effect on
saving
and thus on wealth next year and beyond.
The US president-elect wants to restore growth via deficit spending in a country with a chronic shortfall of
saving.
This points to a further compression in national saving, making a widening of an already outsize trade gap all but inevitable.
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