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To: SecularBull who wrote (143807)	5/8/2001 5:45:23 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

SB, Your graph goes from 1995-2001. That is the Republican years, not the Clinton years. Scumbria

To: SecularBull who wrote (143807)	5/8/2001 7:04:01 PM
From: aknahow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

The saving rate is not as meaningful as one might think. If you take $5,000 out of a savings type account and invest it in a stock or even a bond mutual fund the transaction will count as a decrease in savings. As mutual funds and stock ownership have increased personal traditional savings have "decreased". True some consider the 2% earned on ones social security "investment" to represent sound value. Perhaps many of these same people, not you or me, consider savings accounts to be a sound way of protecting ones net worth.