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  • The Ever-Updated Personal Saving Rate
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  • The Bureau of Economic Analysis estimates that the personal saving rate for the first quarter of 2013 was 2.3 percent—a five-year low, and a substantial drop from the fourth quarter of 2012, when it stood at 5.3 percent. Since many economists think a healthy household balance sheet is a necessary condition to fuel a stronger economic recovery, should we be worried about how low this estimate of the saving rate is?

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