If Americans become thriftier while foreigners fail to spend more, it will stagnate.

ECONOMIST: America's economy

Rather than reward his pennant winners with championship rings, he did something thriftier: He let them keep their uniforms.

FORBES: Portfolio

Hopes that spending by consumers in the thriftier parts of Europe would make up for lost exports have been dashed.

ECONOMIST: The euro-area economy

Consumer spending in Britain (and in America) rose at about the same rate as in thriftier Germany during the second quarter.

ECONOMIST: The world economy

Rules are useful for governments that are thriftier than Venezuela's but more profligate than Norway's, but only if they stick to them.

ECONOMIST: Commodities

If people do get even thriftier, this will hold back consumer spending.

ECONOMIST: The return of thrift

The problem for the euro area is that it has trouble-spots, like Greece, with worse than average finances, and no means (until now) to tap the credit of their thriftier brethren.

ECONOMIST: Europe's financial crisis

She was used to spending freely on gifts and clothes, so she needed to rein in her budget, while her thriftier husband focused on ways to save, such as refinancing their mortgage.

FORBES: Connect

My go-to Saturday morning recipe is an old one that owes its pleasant acidic edge to a shot of white vinegar a substitute for what would have been sour milk in thriftier times, when cooks were loathe to let any ingredient go to waste.

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