Economist Online

Personal savings rate jumped at the time when consumption is most needed.

(graph courtesy of calculatedrisk; click to enlarge)

I don’t know how many nationalization pieces I have posted recently, but that’s the thorny hotly debated issue right now. Here is another piece about 1 month old, but it has some lively discussions, plus, it included Catherine Mann of Brandeis IBS in there.

link to the video (about 20 mins)  (source: ABC)