Savings
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Half of Russia's banks closed, and many Russians lost their savings, while living standards fell by some 30%.
Greece is the second-largest defense spender, relative to GDP, in the EU; clearly, in today’s economic climate,
savings
here could provide hugely welcome budget relief.
Academic studies have found that locally cultivated vertical farms – stacked greenhouses that use artificial light to grow crops – can provide considerable savings, which could then be passed along to consumers.
Not only do PPUs offer major
savings
in terms of resources and transportation; they are also not prohibitively expensive to build.
Stronger financial markets can move
savings
to where they can do the most to spur economic growth.
So, should you stop investing in emerging-market funds just because 5% of your
savings
would go toward financing Venezuela?
The DEM would allow you to root for higher returns on your
savings
without wishing for human misery.
Lacking in domestic
savings
and wanting to grow, the US must import surplus
savings
from abroad, and run massive current-account deficits to attract the foreign capital.
In these countries, retirees will need additional forms of
savings
and income in order to maintain the standard of living to which they are accustomed.
Superannuation – a government-mandated private
savings
plan – does not yet have enough assets to compensate for the country’s relatively parsimonious public pension system.
Also surprising is the increase in Argentina’s domestic
savings
rate, which has enabled self-financing of investment – which has doubled – and, paradoxically, capital outflows.
Moreover, in order to provide much-needed finance to local firms, Argentina needs some of the
savings
that have been sent abroad to return.
For starters, because Chinese firms are not starved for capital – thanks to China’s chronic
savings
glut – gaining access to foreign technologies is their main motivation for trying to attract direct investment from abroad.
That means reducing the unprecedentedly high
savings
rate, a large share of which accrues to state-owned enterprises.
Many soon learned that criminals had reeled in their small
savings.
For some, the problem is a
savings
glut associated with slower demographic growth, rising life expectancy, and static retirement thresholds – a combination that forces people to save more for their old age.
But, as Barry Eichengreen points out, the rise in
savings
appears to be too small to explain this.
More than half of all workers (and more than 60% of low-income workers) are at risk of lacking sufficient
savings
to maintain their living standards after they stop working.
Personal retirement savings, another pillar of the US retirement system, are woefully inadequate for most households, partly because the decades-long stagnation in median wages has made it difficult to save.
Meanwhile, three-quarters of near-retirees – those aged 50-64 – have annual incomes below $52,201 and average total retirement
savings
of less than $27,000.
The United States relies on generous tax incentives to encourage personal retirement savings, but these incentives are poorly targeted and yield limited returns.
Moreover, while the incentives cost the US Treasury nearly $100 billion annually, they induce little new saving; instead, they cause high-income taxpayers to shift their
savings
to tax-advantaged assets – a major reason why President Barack Obama proposes capping the tax deduction for retirement saving.
Lack of coverage in employer-based plans and insufficient personal
savings
leave more than one-third of all households (and more than 75% of low-income households) entirely dependent on Social Security for their retirement income.
In the US, making saving easier and more financially rewarding through better-targeted tax incentives, matching government contributions, automatic IRAs, and state-wide retirement plans would help boost retirement savings, especially for low- and middle-income households.
A progressive consumption tax is relatively efficient and does not distort
savings
decisions as much as today’s income taxes do.
Although individual taxes on corporate income reduce the after-tax return to savings, they have less distorting effects on investment location than corporate taxes do, and they are more likely to fall on owners of capital than on workers.
The global financial system reinforces this concentration, with negative real interest rates promoting financial repression on household
savings.
In other words, Gore sees the pension system as a means to redistribute between rich and poor;Bush sees it more as a “private” system to accumulate individual pension
savings.
A higher exchange rate would reduce their current-account surpluses, because they are unable or unwilling to reduce their
savings
and sustain growth through higher spending on domestic consumption.
If nominal and real depreciation (appreciation) of the deficit (surplus) countries fails to occur, the deficit countries’ falling domestic demand and the surplus countries’ failure to reduce
savings
and increase consumption will lead to a global shortfall in aggregate demand in the face of a capacity glut.
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