August 24, 2009

Lower wealth leads to a decline in spending and while income may decline, we know that wealth has declined more than the economy’s income. Hence, the reduced spending will be larger than the decline in income. Since, in a flow basis, savings are defined as the difference between income and expenditure, we can safely conclude that the savings rate will rise.

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