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Ben Bernanke, the US Federal Reserve chairman, once famously pinned the whole US current account deficit on a global savings glut.

Most economists in China seem to support the PBOC s stance, citing the potential benefits of capital account liberalization.

By increasing inflation, the Fed would turn real interest rates seriously negative, thereby coercing thrifty households into spending instead of saving.

First and foremost, there is the global savings glut, an idea popularized by current Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in a 2005 speech.

In early 2012, the People s Bank of China (PBOC) released a report calling for policymakers to take advantage of a strategic opportunity to accelerate capital account liberalization.

Automatic Savers

U.S. officials, just a couple of weeks ago, froze a Swiss bank account belonging to Mr. Jain, and that bank account had 14.9 million U.S. dollars on it.

America s Saving Surprise

Japan s Savings Crisis

Savings rates shot up.

Saving. A domestic saving rate in excess of 50 has served China well.

Both the savings shortage and savings glut hypotheses confuse accounting outcomes with causes.

Most countries have introduced some form of forced savings (such as compulsory contribution to pension and provident funds) and provide tax incentives to stimulate long term household savings.

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The natural interest rate was low because, as the Fed s current chairman Ben Bernanke explained at the time, the world had a global savings glut (or, rather, a global investment deficiency).

Balancing China s High Savings

In other words, the government s negative saving is being financed by the private and household sectors positive saving.

But, as America s savings rate begins to rise, China s export led growth model, which has promoted employment in China at the cost of global trade imbalances, may no longer be possible.

America s Saving Rate and the Dollar s Future

Too Much Saving, Too Little Investment

Saving may also take the form of individual contributions to retirement accounts or employer contributions to corporate saving plans.

While some measures that the PBOC has taken under the banner of capital account liberalization have turned out to be both necessary and appropriately moderate, others may need to be reassessed and rescinded.

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Talk abounds of a global savings glut.

Why Are Savings Patterns So Different?

Talk abounds of a global savings glut. In fact, the world economy suffers not from too much saving, but from too little investment.

Oil rich countries tend to save a lot. Countries with serious internal crises or conflicts tend to save little.

Apart from accounting for the global divergence in savings rates, tight credit constraints in China might explain the country s high, and rising, savings rate especially as the large rise in national savings is attributable mostly to household savings.

Nine out of 10 either cannot save through their 401 plan, decide not to save or don't decide or save too little.

Since the saving of younger savers is now high and the dissaving of the older dissavers is low, the net saving rate is high.

As this change unfolds, the enormous willingness to save, and to tolerate high saving government policies, will fade.

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There is no way to predict what the saving rate will do next.

American households are saving again.

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The Provident Fund loans are not considered an investment asset.

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The fundamental problem is that while some people postpone saving for sensible reasons, and will resume saving later, many others fail to save for no good reason, and are unlikely to make up for it later.

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For example, the US Federal Reserve has essentially guaranteed the financial sector that if it gets into trouble, ultra low interest rates will be maintained (at the expense of savers) until the sector recovers.

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