Our per capita liquidity exceeds that of Japan, a nation noted for its high savings rate.
Germany has a high savings rate but pension-fund assets of just 14% of GDP.
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The link sounds plausible: take China's regular 9-10% annual growth and its high savings rate.
It's got an aging population, a very high savings rate and a lot of large, large companies.
The Greek Cabinet ushered in fresh measures to raise revenues in order to meet sky-high savings targets.
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Japan had a high savings rate for years but has suffered dismal growth over the past two decades.
The result has been high growth, low unemployment, high savings and the highest home-ownership rates in the world.
The euro area's consumers have high savings and low debt by rich-world standards but are nervous all the same.
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China, Brazil, and other emerging economies without debt, high savings rates and fast growth will see their currencies appreciate significantly.
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It was not so long ago, in the early decades after World War II, that we had fairly high savings rates.
Even with high savings rates, it seems unlikely that the younger generation will be able or willing to afford such a burden.
In a country with a very high savings rate and 5% inflation, this resulted in a 4% annual loss of purchasing power.
Policy makers have consistently encouraged high savings and investment for three decades.
After all Italy also has a high savings rate, and it even enjoys a primary surplus, but it was not spared market contagion.
There are other ways to shrink the gap between Germany's high savings rate and relatively low investment, the underlying reason for its current-account surplus.
High savings (sometimes mandatory), interest rate controls, and high economic growth let Chinese banks enjoy a steady interest rate spread and a larger loan volume.
High savings should ensure a healthy demand for bonds, which will also be snaffled up by Japan's distressed banks, as they cut their loan-books in the struggle to meet capital-adequacy requirements.
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China's high savings will also spur deals.
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They read the foreign press like anyone else, and they know the case that is made against them: namely that Germany deluded itself for years that it was a model of virtue because it was an export champion, offsetting relatively weak domestic consumption linked to wage restraint and high savings rates.
If your current savings account is offering you pittance compared with the market leaders, switching to the high interest savings account seems pretty smart.
So the unusually high French savings rate, for instance, is not an opportunity for the economy but evidence of French fear for the future.
Putting those dollars into a high interest savings or money market account instead could pay for a small vacation or a great holiday splurge.
Essentially this means pushing here and there to boost the competitiveness of most established economies while encouraging consumer spending in high-savings emerging economies, especially China.
Social Security benefits are already skewed by income, so that low-wage workers get a high return on their savings and high-wage workers get a rotten return.
Government spending in Japan is out of control, and the aggregate fiscal deficit would be catastrophic if it weren't for the extremely high domestic savings rate.
Gone, or at least modified, are the mercantilist policies of producing and growing to the max, financing high domestic investment with super-high domestic savings, exporting as much as possible, importing as little as necessary, and accumulating the difference in a big pile of foreign money.
The high-savings economies, China, Japan, Germany, would have to spend and consume more - to boost global demand, create a market for the goods and services of the UK, US and so on, and help the indebted economies reduce their debts in a less painful way.
You probably also have an emergency fund that you keep liquid in a high-interest savings account.
This week, several banks raised interest rates for diligent savers taking advantage of so-called high-yield savings accounts.
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