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Chasing Value: Four Great Stocks -- Gov't Fears Savings Spiraling Out of Control

Sheldon Liber — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:00:00 EST

Filed under: Apple Inc (AAPL), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), Market Matters, Politics, Chasing Value[TM], Recession, Financial Crisis, EZCORP (EZPW), Ebix Inc. (EBIX), Fiserv Inc (FISV), Portfolio Recovery Associates (PRAA)

Government debt is expanding -- again! At the same time corporate coffers are overflowing some $1.6 trillion with reserve capital, not counting financial institutions. In some instances they have more money than any state in the Union and most small countries. Chasing Value: Apple's Holding $48 Billion -- For What?

Here's a shocker -- personal savings continues to increase. When the (false) economy was booming valuations for everything were spiraling out of control, leverage was extreme, and the savings rate was next to nothing. Everyone wanted to join the party and most people stayed at the party to long, which did not end well. The savings rate has not been so high in a decade as people reduce their debt and streamline their personal budgets.

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Savings rate hits 14-year high

Beth Gaston Moon — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:20:00 EST

Filed under: Good news, Economic Data, Personal Finance, Recession

Here's a silver lining to that dark cloud some folks are calling the worst economic environment since the Great Depression: the savings rate is up.

Nervous about the other shoe dropping, Americans are stashing away extra funds for a rainy day. In large part, cash collected from bonus payments, cost-of-living raises, or holiday gifts were saved rather than spent in January, lifting the personal savings rate to its highest since March 1995, at 5.0%. Just last year, the personal savings rate was hovering at an unimpressive 0.1%. From the 1950s through the early 1980s, however, the savings rate was closer to 10%. Viewed on an annual basis, the personal savings rate hit a new record of $545.5 billion.

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Is the U.S. in a 'growth recession'?

Joseph Lazzaro — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:27:00 EST

Filed under: International Markets, Forecasts, Other Issues, China, Russia, Middle East, Canada, Eastern Europe, Federal Reserve

There's an old Wall Street adage that goes, "Sometimes the Street's chorus is a chorus of two."

And there's perhaps no better example of that than the current debate over the strength of the U.S. economy. Professionals in the Concrete Canyon have been amassing on either side of two camps for months: "The U.S. economy is headed toward recession" or "The U.S. economy will continue to grow."

Still, as history demonstrates, and contrary to the current 'chorus' on Wall Street, sometimes there are more than two options. For example, what if the U.S. economy is headed toward a growth recession? I.E. a protracted period of sub-trend GDP growth.

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