The imbalance has more to do with Americans' unwillingness to save, combined with an over-abundance of savings in other countries.
There was some traditional squabbling, mainly over savings-tax harmonisation (blocked by Britain) and British beef (blocked by France), but all this was less than usually distracting.
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The package of bills would also change the rules for the treatment of over-the-counter drugs under popular savings plans.
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Cloud-based services can provide cost and maintenance savings over traditional on- premise software.
Investors would think a lot harder before they handed over their hard-earned savings to so-called investment professionals.
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But pensions have become a much smaller component of Americans' retirement-savings mix over the years.
They may offer not only, potential savings over time-and-materials approaches, but also the confidence to push forward with other initiatives.
Because our savings are over-insured, we don't stop to consider the activities or the health of the institutions we bank with.
Families all over America now can put their savings into new tax- free education IRAs.
But now, however much you have left over after subtracting automatic expenses and savings from your take-home pay is how much you have to spend on discretionary spending throughout the month.
Workers over 50 are allowed to contribute more to their employer-sponsored retirement savings plan.
The Japanese consumer isn't as over-leveraged as their U.S. counterparts, and their savings rate is higher.
"Consumers associate larger sizes with more savings and more value, and they tend to over-pour or over-use the products because they don't feel guilty about using more, " he said.
By contrast, if the key risk you worry about is the post-inflation value of your savings falling by 50% over the next decade or two, or if you fear being unable to live on the meagre returns from even the best savings policies, then cash looks a bad choice and stock markets a better one.
Because companies would have deducted this newly expensed investment over time anyway, they will effectively pay back any short-term tax savings and Treasury will eventually recover most of its revenue loss.
So by locking in savings over 10 years, we are actually paying for the two-year extension.
Savings in emerging markets and oil-producing countries have risen over that period, but not enough to reverse the trend.
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This is -- all of this is about a period of over 10 years, both the savings from spending cuts and the savings from revenue increases.
IRA-plus (not tax-deductible, but with tax-free withdrawals on retirement), or they can roll their savings over from one account to another, or can take out money early to buy a house or pay for college.
Consumers should see an increase in fuel savings (over the lifetime of their cars) as newer and more fuel-efficient cars become available starting with the 2017 car models.
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Urge countries to do as we did with our savings-and- loan debacle: Set up government entities to take over bad loans from the stricken banking system, and make individual depositors whole.
The savings from a higher retirement age - expected to cost about 10bn euros over 10 years - would also help to meet EU rules on Italy's budget deficit, which it must erase by 2010.
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Not only can a journal help you with the harsh reality of where your money goes each pay cycle, but over time will help you to feel good about your cost-cutting measures as it will reflect the savings you make each day.
Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said there were "difficult decisions" ahead, but the savings would begin in April 2011 and be "spread evenly" over the next four years - equivalent to an annual 6% budget reduction.
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Cyprus may be the fourth eurozone country to request a bailout from international creditors -- after Ireland, Portugal and Greece -- but it is the first nation where politicians have attempted to force taxpayers into handing over their personal savings to rescue the banks.
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"In Swindon we have been making tens of millions of pounds of savings over the last few years and there does come a point where you cannot make savings of that magnitude - and I think we are nearing that point now, " said Councillor Mattock.
Mr Cassidy expects around 150 banks to go bust over the next two to three years, a small fraction of the number that failed in the savings-and-loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s but a sharp rise all the same: just three have folded in the past three years.
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With a savings rate of barely 4% of GDP, the average US household is unlikely to be over-saving.
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