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Tortuous claims that saving is merely the flip side of consumption and investment spending are the economic equivalent of Humpty Dumpty’s argument in Through the Looking Glass : “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean.”
But saving endangered and near-endangered species is not just about conservation; it is also about defending millions of people’s livelihoods, which depend on healthy oceans.
The high saving rate of Chinese households reflects both the normal high rate of saving among younger generations and the fact that older generations had very little income – and therefore did very little saving – when they were young.
The aggregate saving rate of the household sector reflects the difference between the saving of the savers and the dissaving of the dissavers.
Since the saving of younger savers is now high and the dissaving of the older dissavers is low, the net saving rate is high.
I believe that the government will act on all of these reasons for high saving, making credit more widely available, introducing a health insurance system, and relaxing some of the down-payment requirements.
Japan is a country with a structural trade surplus – ie, exports are likely to remain above imports on a sustained basis because Japan’s trade surplus results from an excess of national saving over investment.
With Japan’s high saving rate (a function of Japan’s aging population) and with investments held down by rates of return that diminished as Japan invested heavily during the postwar period, Japan’s excess savings naturally sought outlets abroad.
Incredibly, Japan was told to run huge budget deficits (reducing government saving) to boost domestic demand.
Second, as government stopped saving, Japanese households saved even more.
Such general institutions as the rule of law and provision of enough personal and national security to safeguard earning, saving and investing are needed for any market economy, even market socialism; they are insufficient for dynamism.
Finally, in countries like Germany, where households’ bank and saving deposits far outweigh their debt, lower interest rates reduce total household spending.
The environmental movement is a new secular Christian creed, for which saving Spaceship Earth has replaced saving souls.
Aside from potentially saving countless lives, reliable data can reduce costs, financially and psychologically.
Some point to an increase in global saving, attributable mainly to high-saving emerging markets.
Even if global saving slightly exceeds 24% of world GDP in 2014, it is unlikely to remain that high for long.
China’s saving will come down as its GDP growth slows, the authorities decontrol interest rates on bank deposit, and the economy rebalances toward consumption.
We must figure out how to make sense of this enormous diversity of ways of saving the world.
While this argument has great emotional and political appeal, it is deeply flawed, because the United States has an insidious saving problem.
America’s net national saving rate – the sum total of household, business, and government saving (adjusted for the depreciation of aging capacity) – currently stands at 2.5% of national income.
While that is better than the negative saving rates of 2008-2011, it remains well short of the 6.3% average of the final three decades of the twentieth century.
Lacking in saving and wanting to grow, America must import surplus savings from abroad.
For example, assuming that there is no increase in domestic US saving, penalizing a low-cost producer like China for currency manipulation would most likely cause the Chinese piece of America’s trade deficit to be reallocated to higher-cost producers.
The charge of currency manipulation is nothing but a foil for the US to duck responsibility for fixing America’s saving problem.
Lacking any semblance of a strategy to boost savings – not just a long-term fix to the federal government’s budget deficit, but also meaningful incentives for personal saving – US politicians have turned to yet another quick fix.
In the end, there is no way around it: If Congress does not like trade deficits, it needs to address America’s saving problem and stop fixating on misplaced concerns over currency manipulation.
Expanded social-security programs and a richer menu of saving and investment options could go a long way toward reducing precautionary saving and boosting consumption.
She loved them blindly, greedily, saving them from wind, hunger, monsters, parents and, most of all, other people.
And, as the owner of over $1.25 trillion in Treasuries and other dollar-based assets, China has played a vital role in funding America’s chronic budget deficits – in effect, lending much of its surplus saving to a US that has been woefully derelict in saving enough to support its own economy.
First, global economic progress depends on high global saving and investment.
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