Marriage means more asset accumulation: Married families save more at every income level.

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Richard Repetto of Sandler O'Neill, an investment bank, says that the priority now should be getting back to core strengths of retail investing and asset accumulation.

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The global economic downturn, declining exports, and low domestic consumption and fixed asset accumulation, dampened by government austerity measures, resulted in an economic contraction of 6.8% in 2009.

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It discourages saving and asset accumulation and encourages wasteful spending.

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What the company needs, says analyst Phil Weiss at Argus Research, is a captain who will lead Chesapeake away from its perennial focus on asset accumulation into a disciplined program of asset harvest.

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But in reality, deflation is the free-market approach to rectify a secular period of superfluous money supply growth, debt accumulation and asset price appreciation.

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There was massive inflation in asset prices, especially in commercial and residential property, and a hideous and dangerous explosion of the accumulation of debt: an analysis by McKinsey, which I've mentioned here many times before, shows that the aggregate of household, business, government and bank debt increased from less than 200% of GDP in 1987 to a record 500% of GDP in 2008, and hasn't really fallen since.

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