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Ric Metcalfe, leader of the Labour-led council, said the council had "little choice" and must save money because of a drop in government funding.
BBC: City Hall
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Allowing people to drop sports channels, in particular, could help them save money because sports channels are among the priciest.
WSJ: Imagining a Post-Bundle World for Cable TV
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Deflation is actually a good thing, because in a deflation prices drop and money becomes more valuable, so deflation encourages people to save money.
FORBES: Fear Not Deflation
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But the June drop suggests that absent government stimulus money, the American consumer really can't save much more and that the rise in savings rates might be less a sign of a new thriftiness than it is a short-term tendency to hoard anything extra that comes in.
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