Your statement was about "Savings Accounts", and yet you show stats for JUST Savings, which INCLUDES Contributions to 401k's and IRA's and the like, which are NOT Savings Accounts...
Why do you think they cite "investments", when YOU are talking about "savings"?!?!?!?!? So please... On Oct 12, 10:19 am, "Mark Kahle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your ignorance posted as fact reminds me of Georgie girl screeching > about WMD's and Nukes in Iraq........... > > all fallacy and no intelligence. > > since NIPA and FFA are the only two methods for figuring savings per > capita and then gaing a reliable national percentage I list BOTH > methods... > > more of those pesky facts you hate. > > The adjusted numbers in Table 2 show the same general trends in the > level of national saving as the unadulterated N.I.P.A. data in Table > 1. In both, net domestic investment rises in the 1990's, but is below > the levels of the 1960's and 1970's. Net domestic investment financed > by domestic saving fell from 12.3 percent of GDP in the 1960's to 8.1 > percent in 1998, with the gap covered by foreign saving. > > The F.F.A. saving rates, shown in Table 3, reveal the same decline in > saving found in the N.I.P.A. data. F.F.A. private saving fell from an > average of 15 percent of income in the 1980's to 9 percent from > 1996-98. The equivalent measure of household saving fell from 12.2 > percent of expanded disposable income in the 1980's to under 5 percent > in 1996-98. > > My statements stand confirmed. Yours??? > > On 10/12/08, Gaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Oct 12, 8:14 am, THE ANNOINTED ONE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Remember in these days (60s to early mid 90s) people were putting > > > 10-13% of their income into savings accounts... > > > That has NEVER been done here in the U.S. > > > By far the most "Wealth" in this Nation is held in Real Estate. > > > Even with all these "problems" with Mortgages here, we are really only > > talking about some 5% of Loans, when in fact fully 1/3 of all Homes in > > this Country are Owned outright. > > > So tell me, if 5% of just the Homes with Loans are worth the amounts > > we are talking about, how much do you suppose the Citizens of the U.S. > > ALREADY OWN outright? > > -- > Mark M. Kahle > Blessed are the bewildered for they don't know the difference.... Me- Hide > quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
