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The data show that countries with saving deficits tend to run trade deficits, while those with saving surpluses tend to run trade surpluses.
The United States is the most obvious example, with a net national saving rate of 2.6% in late 2015 – less than half the 6.3% average in the final three decades of the twentieth century – and trade deficits with 101 countries.
That was the case in the run-up to the financial crisis of 2008-2009, when global saving imbalances, as measured by the disparities between countries with current-account deficits and surpluses, hit a modern record.
The prudent approach would be to strike a better balance between saving and spending.
That is particularly important for the US and China, which together account for a disproportionate share of the world’s saving disparities.
Its recently enacted 13th Five-Year Plan aims to dampen fear-driven precautionary saving through interest-rate liberalization, the introduction of deposit insurance, the loosening of the hukou residential permit system (which would improve benefit portability), and relaxation of the one-child family planning policy.
There is no interest in debating the saving issue, let alone implementing policies to address it.
Instead, US politicians continue to focus on keeping the consumption binge going, regardless of its implications for America’s saving imperative.
The asymmetrical response of the world’s two largest economies to their respective saving dilemmas has far-reaching consequences.
To the extent that China makes progress on the road to consumer-led rebalancing, it will shift from surplus saving to saving absorption.
Already, China’s gross national saving rate has declined from a peak of 52% of GDP in 2008 to around 44% this year.
After all, along with reduced current-account and trade surpluses, China’s consumer-led shift to saving absorption likely entails diminished accumulation of foreign-exchange reserves and reduced recycling of those reserves into dollar-based assets such as US Treasuries.
To the extent that America fails to boost its domestic saving, the lack of Chinese capital may well force the US to pay a steeper price for external financing, through a weaker dollar, higher real interest rates, or both.
No country can prosper indefinitely without saving.
It is time for politicians to own up to the uncomfortable truth: The saving deficit is the single greatest threat to the American Dream.
I also highlighted the role of rising inequality in increasing saving and the role of structural changes toward the demassification of the economy in reducing demand.
Major efforts to shift from saving toward spending are also required.
That issue frames the third major component of the new Plan’s pro-consumption agenda – the need to build a social safety net in order to reduce fear-driven precautionary saving.
But there is a catch: in shifting to a more consumption-led dynamic, China will reduce its surplus saving and have less left over to fund the ongoing saving deficits of countries like the US.
But now, in the name of saving the planet from climate change, environmentalists are proposing an immense global campaign to cut down and burn trees and scrubs in order to reduce fossil-fuel use.
So, instead of saving 30 tons, we save four tons at most.
By saving themselves, they may also be able to play an instrumental role in saving China.
This has not only facilitated trade and transport, but also translates into faster response times for emergency services, saving thousands of lives each year.
Saving three innocent lives for every person executed seems like a very attractive trade-off, and even two lives saved per execution seems like a persuasive benefit-cost ratio for capital punishment.
To me it is obvious that saving such a victim’s life must count for more than taking the criminal’s life.
In other words, the government’s negative saving is being financed by the private and household sectors’ positive saving.
Maintaining a competitive currency requires a rise in domestic saving relative to investment, or a reduction in national expenditure relative to income.
There are other instruments available for increasing domestic saving and reducing consumption besides the fiscal balance.
Government policies can target private saving directly, by creating incentives for saving through appropriate tax and pension policies.
If people act on this belief by saving every extra pound, dollar, or euro that the government puts in their pockets, the extra government spending will have no effect on economic activity, regardless of how many resources are idle.
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