Summary: and for the next two years By comparison from 2000 to 2007 the annual increase in consumer spending was 2 9 Additional losses in household income and wealth are likely in 2009 Table 1 With consumers confronting such hostile wealth and income prospects the saving rate is likely to rise sharply as it did after the Great Depression and excluding the distortions created by
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