Starving piggy banks.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - Brief article

The Commerce Department reports, according to the Associated Press, that the nation's savings rate for all of 2006 was -1 percent, the worst showing in seventy-three years. Subtract seventy-three from 2006, and we see that the previous low was in 1933--at the height of the Great Depression. If that doesn't make you a bit nervous, consider that...