The Decline in Thrift & Deterioration of American Savings Rates

Lauren Reiff
9 min readFeb 9, 2019

Economic metrics are awfully smart tools to paint a particular picture of the state of America with. For example, fingers are often pointed at current low unemployment and economic growth figures to suggest Trump’s effectiveness. But the truth is that the overall economic picture is not quite so lovely and ideal. Which is to say, there are some financial trends that we avert our…

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