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  • Savings rate lowest since the great depression (living on borrowed time?)

    02/01/2006 6:04:26 AM PST · by AZRepublican · 72 replies · 1,786+ views
    The Commerce Department reported Monday that the nation's savings rate was a negative number last year. You read it right. The average household didn't save a dime last year. In fact, the report said, Americans either took on more debt or dipped into previous savings in 2005 - to the tune of one half of one percent of their after-tax income. The savings rate in the United States hasn't been this low since the Great Depression. But back in 1932 and 1933, unemployment was rampant, and many families had to break the piggy bank just to keep food on the...