Theoretically, Japan has enough savings to do this but in practice the savings don't get intermediated through the banking and life insurance companies and the trust fund bureau and the post office savings account in sufficient quantities to buy these bonds.
But to start with, all of these countries have long histories up to the present of institutions that really serve small savers - things like post office savings, savings banks.
In France, to private-sector bankers' fury, large chunks of the retail-banking market are dominated by savings banks and the post office, which enjoy tax and legal privileges that allow them to offer particularly advantageous savings accounts.
Investors were supposed to get tax savings and profits from office and residential buildings that were bought, renovated and resold.
And, in Japan, they keep their savings unproductively in the post office.
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Additional carbon footprint savings will come from reduced office energy consumption, roadway repairs, urban heating, office construction, business travel and paper usage (as electronic documents replace paper).
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However, a spokeswoman for the Post Office - where savings products are backed by the Bank of Ireland - said there had been an increase in customers since the Irish government's announcement.
With borrowed money and a storefront office, they sold savings plans door-to-door and later their own mutual funds.
He yanked 5, 000 Transmedia processing machines out of restaurants and combined Dining's classier front-end product with Transmedia's superior back-office system that credited savings on monthly charge-card accounts.
Council leader Miles Parkinson said the authority had under spent, cut the workforce from 450 to 320 and reduced its office space to make savings over the last two years.
And even pros can miss potential savings: A recent General Accounting Office report estimated that a million taxpayers overpaid because they didn't itemize their deductions when they should have--even though they had a pro do their return.
Other savings will be made in "back office" functions and by joint working with partner organisations.
Any attempt to end the privileges of Japan's farmers, shopkeepers or postal workers (the privatisation of the post office, with its vast savings deposits, is a pet project of Mr Koizumi's) will not go down well.
He added that additional cost savings can be made by swapping out Microsoft Office for Sun's newly acquired Star Office technology.
Mr Vaughan also claimed that the European Parliament had "done its bit" on making savings: MEPs had accepted a freeze in their office allowances and cuts to their travel budgets.
According to the National Audit Office only a quarter of the claimed savings were fairly represented while the second efficiency programme launched just last year is "cutting services to claim efficiencies" - and has "acute" measurement problems.
All combined, the costs related to aggregating money, i.e. savings, is much higher today than when Obama took office.
The Cabinet Office gives warning that the once-lauded savings rate, which peaked at 23% of household income in 1973, is now down to a Western-like 2.7%.
Savings signed-off were care services, back-office and buildings costs.
"We have asked the council for the draft budget and all relevant financial documents because we want to do a forensic examination at our head office of their finances to see where other savings could be made to avoid this, " he said.
What the Congressional Budget Office has said is that as a consequence of the savings from the waste and fraud, combined with the new revenue sources I just mentioned, that this thing is going to actually reduce our deficit by over a trillion dollars -- over a trillion dollars.
While the law says the IPAB can try innovative approaches to modernize care, the Congressional Budget Office does not count these programs as achieving any meaningful cost savings.
However, the impetus for employees working from home or a remote office is often rooted in company-centric benefits like cost savings, productivity gains, or access to global talent.
In the process, the company claimed to have generated nearly half a billion in savings for utilities by sourcing, procuring and managing purchases of everything from office furniture and software to wood poles and substation services.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, however, said that provision is unlikely to bring significant savings.
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There's almost no cost savings to the theater owners to put in all that technology, and with box office receipts in the U.S. recently down for 19 weekends in a row, owners have little incentive to spend.
Then there's yesterday's testimony, from Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director Doug Elmendorf, that ObamaCare's cost "savings" are an illusion.
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"We're involved because of our work on the retirement savings of American workers, " says Bill Patterson, director of the union's office of investment.
By passing on its savings to customers, it aims to capture a dominant market share even in the cloud Office market, just like it does in the desktop productivity software market.
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As in 2010-11, it endorsed the level of savings reported by government and it also welcomed the lead provided by Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office minister in charge of the unit, and the "close links" with government departments.
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