Forced savings is one thing, and we all have different means of cash management.
Surrey County Council said it had been forced to make savings after its annual government grant was reduced.
For financial markets, the implication appears to be that even as millions of Baby Boomers begin retiring, it's highly unlikely they will be forced to raid their savings accounts and 401(k)s en masse to buy groceries.
Such a strategy might help Britain to avoid being forced to harmonise corporate or savings taxes.
The current job market has also forced families to deplete their savings and max out credit cards to pay for their everyday needs.
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Under the bailout, depositors will be forced to take major losses on savings over 100, 000 euros, and capital controls were imposed in March.
For decades, the federal government capped the interest rates financial institutions paid on checking and savings accounts, which forced banks to differentiate themselves in other ways, often with gifts.
More than a quarter of Scottish respondents reported they had been forced to cut back on their savings by rising costs, while a further quarter said they were saving less than two years ago.
It will mean that health boards are forced to cut staff numbers and find savings from frontline services.
The meager growth forced Americans to save less, allowing the savings rate to fall to 3.7%, the lowest level since 2010.
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Depositors would rush to get their savings out of the country to pre-empt a forced conversion to a new, weaker currency.
It seems to us that should Japan run out of domestic savings to finance its debt, that it would be forced to monetize it by printing their way out.
Because the Co-Op would become so large in the sensitive business of taking deposits, with care of tens of billions of pounds of savings for many millions of customers, it would be forced to change its corporate structure and governance, and dedicate more capital to banking, to protect depositors from losses.
For any business forced to compete -- that is, most -- all such savings in inventory and headcount had to be passed on to consumers.
This type of unrestricted savings is especially valuable for individuals who have limited liquid assets and who may otherwise be forced to meet emergency cash needs with high-cost payday loans.
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