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To: GST who wrote (39866)2/13/1999 2:29:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor  Read Replies (1) of 164684
 
Care to guess what Americans save? If you guessed nothing you are close.

I keep hearing that and Im wondering what they include in the definition of "saving". Does it include any investments - stock market, etc? This is just too difficult to believe. For example, anybody that forgoes salary in exchange for stock (which is in essence everyone in a small high tech company, even if it is already public in some cases) - is in a way "saving".

Im a little sensitive to these arcane measurements of wealth that the government has. Kind of like how they restrict things like the Roth IRA to those with lower incomes and yet business owners and many wealthy people can restrict their income such that they can participate - whereas the working parent with 2 kids earning 100K can not.

Michelle

Edit: whoops sorry for the off topic but its Saturday
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