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Lord, Make Us Thrifty. But Not Yet.

By The Daily Dish
Feb 19 2009, 8:16 AM ET

James Pethokoukis quotes Ed Yardeni:

We are told: Americans must save more. Maybe so but that won’t be good for our economy. I’ve heard some observers casually claim that the personal saving rate must go back to 8%. If it did that during the fourth quarter of last year, real GDP would have been down by 17.9% instead of 3.8%.



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