At some stage prices will fall, obliging consumers to save much more and spend less.
This is a rationale for forcing people to save much more than the bare minimum.
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.
There is no convincing explanation of why some people save so much more than others.
Partly because Asians save more, work much harder and rely on the family rather than on a European-style welfare state.
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Angela Merkel believes there will have to be a political union in the eurozone, but will she tell the German people they will have to contribute much more to save the currency?
Samuel Tisherman and Patrick Kochanek at the University of Pittsburgh's Safar Center for Resuscitation Research hope that much more radical cooling can save trauma victims.
If we stopped asking them to save us from ourselves, we could do much more than watch TV in peace.
Memorial Day is much more than overeating, having fun and seeing how much money you can save on the newest technology.
VanDerhei looked at how many more people are at risk for inadequate retirement savings due to the Great Recession, and how much more they would need to save to make up for those additional losses.
How much people want to save depends on how much spending they are willing to forgo today in order to consume more tomorrow.
Believe me, this will save developers a lot of time and make designers much more comfortable touching code.
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The Chinese save over 30% of their income, which gives them much more to reinvest in their country.
You can use this retirement calculator for a more precise number of how much you need to save based on your individual situation and goals.
For all the dollars we may save because of lower gas prices, many of us are losing much more from the fall in stock prices, at least on paper.
And if we could create a much more efficient 21st-century grid, we could save huge amounts of energy -- 10, 15, 20 percent -- just in making -- just becoming more efficient, and that would create a whole bunch of jobs for people who would have to lay down lines, put up new transmitters, all that good stuff.
Every day, the children can learn how much electricity they have fed into the grid and how to save more energy.
They were all pretty much spot-on: maximize your 401k, for instance, save a little more and take every tax break you can.
Mark Schlesinger, chairman of anesthesiology at Hackensack Medical Center, doubts it will save hospitals that much, but he expects to use the drug anyway because it appears to be safer and more effective than alternatives.
"We're either saying that the 43 forces must co-operate much more, that the fiefdoms must come down, the forces should share services both to save money and to enable better action to deal with serious crime and incidents that cross their borders, " Mr Herbert said.
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