Mr Karr sees the current rhetoric about saving salmon as beside the point.
It has allowed the current strategy for saving the euro to continue.
They point out that the current system discourages saving, by taxing it twice: once when the initial income is earned, and again when the returns to investment are reaped.
The budget cuts forced by sequestration may be a bad way to control spending, but there is no question that the Pentagon can reshape its budget to meet current challenges while saving hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayer funds.
Squeezing down current consumption and encouraging maximum saving and investment produces a higher growth rate and higher standard of living some time in the future.
Politicians are likely to decide that Channel 4 is worth saving in its current form, one way or another: they know people don't thank them for mucking up their telly.
With a shrinking defense budget and a still uncertain economy, returning civilian-soldiers may find a pink slip waiting for them because of current downsizing and corporate cost-saving initiatives.
Some numbers, such as the low saving rate and the colossal current-account deficit, suggest that the economy's course is unsustainable.
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Since the current-account balance equals the net saving of the private and public sectors, a budget deficit boosts the external deficit.
Instead, his legacy will linger in the shape of the biggest economic imbalances in American history: a negative household saving rate and a record current-account deficit (see chart 1).
If this succeeds in stimulating demand, Japanese saving will fall and the current-account surplus in due course will narrow. (In the short term, however, most of the effect will be masked by a cheaper yen.) Perhaps demand in Japan is already stronger than the figures suggest.
By investing (and saving), a country sacrifices current consumption but future output and consumption will be higher.
One would allow an unlimited exemption for saving, in effect turning the current income tax into a consumption tax.
For one thing, if governments try to force people to save more than they want, the savers may try to offset this either by reducing non-mandatory saving or by borrowing to maintain their current consumption.
One way to demonstrate this is to remember that the gap between domestic saving and investment must be equal to the current-account balance, which is probably measured more accurately.
The result of robust exports and weak imports linked to anemic domestic spending is its perennial current account surpluses, which, along with earlier high saving by households and now by businesses, allow it to finance its huge government deficits internally, with foreigners owning only 5%.
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This slump in private saving is also reflected in America's widening current-account deficit.
And it is worth remembering that slower domestic spending and higher saving is exactly what America needs to correct its current-account deficit.
No Republican, not even Ron Paul, is going beyond the status quo to insist that top marginal tax rates must be cut by at least a third (ideally scrapping the current income-tax system altogether and replacing it with a pro-growth, low-single-rate tax system that does not punish saving, investing and entrepreneurial risk-taking as the current progressive income tax does).
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The Energy Saving Trust says a third of new homes do not meet current standards.
That is nonsense, as can be seen by looking at the current account from the other end: as the difference between a country's saving and its investment.
To understand why, one needs to focus on an accounting relationship: by definition, the sum of net private-sector saving (saving less investment) and public-sector saving (the budget balance) must be equal to a country's current-account balance.
One of the reasons investors have lost confidence in some Asian currencies is that many countries are running big current-account deficits in other words, they are investing more than they are saving at home.
Some Democratic Congressmen from rural states are said to be refusing to agree to the bill unless it continues with the current subsidies for corn ethanol which are accused of pushing up the cost of food and wasting energy rather than saving it.
Not being an expert in gun control or an advocate one way or the other, I do know the current system does not work and it is time for people on both sides ot the debate to agree that saving lives is an important enough goal to change the system.
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An innovation can be as simple as your bookkeeper reducing a bill paying process by 3 steps and thus saving 5 minutes per bill, to an entirely new product line, to an improvement to a current product, to a new high margin service, to a new cultural ritual to improve employee engagement.
"The current most urgent issue is grasping the first 24 hours since the quake's occurrence, the golden time for saving lives, " Mr Li was quoted as saying by Xinhua state news agency.
In Michigan, meanwhile, the public service commission there says that the 10 percent target by 2015 is saving money for energy customers, largely because the price of future advanced coal generation is greater than the current subsidized price of green power.
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