Quote from fearless9:
If the US savings rate is now climbing for the first time in over a decade, where is the stimulus money going to wind up.
If you answer, 'in the bank by way of savings or debt reduction', then ask yourself this .....
Where is the net jobs increase coming from if consumption America is shedding jobs faster than the Fed gov America can create work.
And, who will be the bigger winner.
regards
f9
The entire talk about creating jobs to me is just nonsense, how many years did the US economy sustain quarter after quarter and year after year of job growth, the US has created millions of jobs over the last decade DUE to the unbelievable amounts of leverage and easy credit that made everyone spend and create new jobs, that time is now over. There is no need to create jobs, they are just going to try and create jobs out of thin air just to try and create a new economy which is not going to happen. Easy credit and cheap credit along with low interest rates fueled the growth in the US over the last 2-3 decades, with that no longer the case creating jobs is going to be nearly impossible at this time the downturn in the economic cycle. Pushing an economy thats already been pushed to its limit is only going to make for more trouble down the line, the best bet for this economy is to let it run its own course and with due time fix itself without intervention.