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badgenome said:
theprof00 said:

Wait a minute, since when have the Japanese been savers?

They always were, until the past 15 years or so. From 1997 to 2007 their average household savings went from something like 11% of income to just 2%, but historically it has looked like this:

lol I saw that edit old man. I often lose track of how long it's been since the millenium too.