LA Times details the (lack of) savings: Consumer spending last month grew faster than people’s take-home incomes as households cut their sa...

At current interest rates, an individual will lose purchasing power in their savings account if there is even an inkling of inflation. A com...

A few data points from today... The Good This morning's Chicago PMI showed that delivery times have slowed. How is this possibly a good...

The chart below shows the national savings rate (net savings of individuals, corporations, and the government). What we see is that for the ...

Savings are building up per Marketwatch : Incomes grew faster than spending in August, pushing up the nation’s personal savings rate, the Co...

Peter Boockvar (via The Big Picture ) with the details: The Savings Rate is now approaching the 50 year average of 6.9% and will very likely...

Financial-Planning reports: While 63% of Americans said they were concerned about the overall state of financial markets in 2009, just 45% ...

Sure looks like a possibility based on Friday's consumer credit release. Marketwatch details: In an encouraging sign for the economy, U...

One reason for the continued low savings rate (and continued spending)? No place to store it (unless you want limited return). The below cha...

Ahead of tomorrow's personal savings release, lets be reminded of the longer term trend... While the savings rate has turned up to ~5% ...

I have heard from a number of readers that the lack of consumption in the current environment is not as troubling as one might expect. The t...

WSJ reports: Without government support, personal income is under pressure as the U.S. workweek gets shorter. In a report showing the U.S. ...

Okay, don't argue with a Nobel Laureate economists. As soon as I posted this under the heading "I Think Paul Krugman is Wrong"...

WSJ reports: Americans spent at a slower rate in February as their income fell and they saved money at a historically elevated level to cus...

Source: BEA

Marketwatch reports: Personal incomes and consumer spending fell in the United States in December from November, the U.S. Commerce Departmen...

Source: BEA

Government Below's chart shows social benefit payments made by the government against the amount of personal taxes collected. As can be...

Since the rebate checks were sent out: Personal Savings is up Real Personal Consumption is Flat Should we admit failure? No... lets try a...