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Is America Saving Enough to be Competitive in the Global Marketplace?

Posted on September 25, 2006
Previously filed under: North America, Global Economy
The US has had its cake and eaten it too in the form of low inflation, cheap borrowing and low interest mortgages. The question is whether it can go on.
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