The personal saving rate is a very poor metric.

个人储蓄率是个很不靠谱的度量方法。

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For decades, the personal saving rate hovered at about seven or eight percent.

几十年以来，个人存款率总是在7%到8%上下徘徊。

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The United States has no compulsory saving plan, and it has an abysmally low – in fact, negative – personal saving rate.

美国没有强制性的储蓄计划，而且其个人储蓄水平极为低下，实际上是负数。

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If share prices plunge, a low personal saving rate provides less of a cushion than a high one.

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The personal saving rate in July dipped to a negative 0.9%, the 16th month in a row the rate has been negative.

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Indeed, one of the strongest arguments for a shift to individual provision is that it should raise the personal saving rate, which would help to foster economic growth.

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