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Technology Stocks : Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN)
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To: GST who wrote (60377)6/4/1999 1:02:00 AM
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RE: "Negative" U.S. Savings rate

FWIW, the government doesn't include capital gains from stock sales in its income estimates. It does, however, deduct short-term capital gains taxes paid from disposable income estimates. When the market is booming and people are paying lots of capital gains taxes, the savings rate number gets skewed downwards.
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