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Since the mid-1970s the long-term trend in household saving has been downwards (see chart above).
Trillions of dollars in household savings evaporated as stocks, pensions, and home values plummeted.
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Since 1975, practically all the gains in household income have gone to the top 20% of households.
Although the goverment has increased public spending that has been offset by a decline in household spending.
Fewer paid working hours, yes, but many more in household production leading to more working hours overall.
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There was also a modest slowdown in household credit to 15.4% from 15.9% in data released this week.
Nearly two-thirds of the increase in household wealth since 2009 is due to rising stock prices, the authors note.
The chart plots the explosion in household financial assets over a half century.
Second, it will facilitate further deleveraging even without an increase in household savings.
Larger payrolls and stabilizing if not increasing births portend increases in household formation.
Today, this cloudy nation leads the world in household solar installations per capita and boasts a mature solar industry.
The rising importance of equities in household wealth suggests that the Bank should be increasingly concerned about falling equity prices.
The Household Income Tracker asked more than 500 adults in Northern Ireland how the fall in household income had affected them.
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Echoing her husband's comments, Preston blamed chemicals in household cleaners and pesticides for attacking her son's immune system, triggering the condition.
In the future, it is expected that batteries currently used in electric cars may play a part in household energy storage.
Over 10 years, Chowdhury says the program witnessed a decline in child mortality rates and increases in household income and education.
The paid work we go out and do in the marketplace and the unpaid work that we do in household production.
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Men are doing fewer paid working hours and both men and women are doing many fewer unpaid working hours in household production.
Individuals are supported through coaching to develop life skills in household management, finances, transportation, employment and creating a safe and supportive network.
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This in turn will lead to looser lending which will allow for larger bids from potential buyers and an increase in household formation.
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But Mr Poterba says even this suggests an increase in consumption that is small by comparison with the increase in household stockmarket wealth.
He got wind of Harvard chemist George Whitesides' success in making tiny fluid-handling devices with the same type of rubber used in household caulk.
Any comparison of per capita GDP with median household income really does rather need to take account of the 21% decline in household size.
The other study, led by scientists at Silent Spring Institute, shows why the presence of such chemicals in household items is a problem.
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Finally, the report draws attention to the worrying increase in household debt, which grew much faster than household income and now exceeds average income by 10%.
More than half of the energy and climate change policy costs in household bills are spent on measures to target the fuel poor and energy efficiency.
"Growth in household loans slowed notably from the previous quarter, while sales on credit saw a big fall amid sluggish consumption, " the bank said in a statement.
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Also over this time period, Brazil recorded 2.8% growth in household consumption, 2.5% growth in gross fixed capital formation and 1.2% growth in the public administration sector.
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