Thursday, January 17, 2013

Bad News

Americans are borrowing from their retirement savings.  But why?
I call it the tyranny of consumption smoothing, an underreported theme in welfare economics.
Which means what?  The poorer you are, the more risky and dumb decisions you will do money-wise because poverty and debt encourages such behavior.

It applies to countries as well, I'm guessing.

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