US and Savings

[Michael Cohen]

> The reported Savings rate in the United States is rather low i.e.
> 2.1-4.0% over the last 10 or twenty years
> and much of the rest of the industrialized is supposed to be higher.
> Does this include the money which is put into pension funds by
> employees.   Is part of the low Savings rate artifactual.

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