Household-saving rates may have fallen, but this does not necessarily indicate imprudence since it has occurred at a time of steep rises in housing wealth.

ECONOMIST: Can you be too rich?

Home prices rose about 8% in 2012, which can contribute to a self-reinforcing circle of coaxing hesitant buyers off the sidelines while improving household balance sheets and creating cash-saving refinancing opportunities.

FORBES: U.S. Recovery Remains On Track With Modest Growth

Since the mid-1970s the long-term trend in household saving has been downwards (see chart above).

ECONOMIST: The sorry state of saving

With a savings rate of barely 4% of GDP, the average US household is unlikely to be over-saving.

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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).

ECONOMIST: Alan Greenspan

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