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- noun an amount that is
dissaved .
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Examples
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- their dissavings, that is negative savings, were as high as Rs 113,153 crore.
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As you pointed out, such 'savings' may be countered by dissavings from those cashing out of the market (every share brought is by definition also a share sold).
Consumption Tax?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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It is quite proper to track that the funds generated net savings by the gov't of $200 while the general fund generated dissavings of $700.
Bartlett and Krugman, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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His 'savings' is not going to productive capital (new factories, machines, etc.) but to finance other peoples 'dissavings (aka consumption).
Taxes and Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Assets are stocks, and savings or dissavings is a flow.
Savings, Capital Gains, and Income, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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In exchange gov't reduces your SS benefit by $106 the cost of its borrowing Savings is exactly $0 since your $100 savings is offset by $100 gov't dissavings.
Economic Debate, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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While the 'private accounts' are savings the act of borrowing $300B is dissavings. $1 borrowed cancels out $1 saved resulting in a net $0.
Boskin on Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The transition from budget surpluses to budget deficits was a major factor in this shift to dissavings.
Think Progress » The Straight Truth About the Bush Economy 2005
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This is using foreign savings to fund government dissavings.
Is There No Relation Between the Federal Deficit and the Dollar? 2006
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This is using foreign savings to fund government dissavings.
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