Talk abounds of a global savings glut.

Thus, there is a global slackening of aggregate demand relative to the glut of supply capacity, which will impede a robust global economic recovery.

This East Asian savings glut enabled a debt fuelled consumption glut in the US, Britain, and much of the Western world.

America certainly does not have a savings glut.

America has a savings deficiency, not a glut.

Third, the corporate sector faces a glut of capacity, and a weak recovery of profitability is likely if growth is anemic and deflationary pressures still persist.

The global savings glut is the result of this perverse relationship.

It feels like we're all suffering from information overload or data glut.

Both the savings shortage and savings glut hypotheses confuse accounting outcomes with causes.

Now, the largest banks are claiming significant increases in non performing property loans, while the glut of new industrial capacity implies that some firms may not have adequate profits to service their debts.

American officials have long bemoaned China s saving glut as a major source of global instability.

The puzzle of the global savings glut may live on for several years to come.

The glut of medical specialists on the labour market has also helped to achieve results.

But what the world economy is facing is not a savings glut, but an investment deficiency.

This interpretation of the origins of the present slump is disputed by the money glut school.

Third, the corporate sector faces a glut of capacity, and a weak recovery of profitability is likely if growth is anemic and deflationary pressures still persist. As a result, businesses are not likely to increase capital spending.

How does a savings glut translate into exports, given that households do not export? Likewise, if the US is consuming too much, why has it been closing manufacturing capacity, and why is there so much labor market softness?

How does a savings glut translate into exports, given that households do not export? Likewise, if the US is consuming too much, why has it been closing manufacturing capacity, and why is there so much labor market softness?

Current Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke raised this idea a few years ago, alleging a world saving glut.

The problem of current account imbalances is closely linked to the existence of a world savings glut.

Consequently, rather than facing a savings glut, the global economy faces a problem of demand failure in developing countries.

Credit constraints in fast growing developing economies may be the reason why the glut emerged in the first place.

This story is fundamentally different from the savings shortage and savings glut hypotheses, and it leads to dramatically different policies.

Others cite the so called capital glut large inflows of external financing from China and much of the developing world.

Neither would it have stopped the global saving glut from turning into a ticking time bomb for the world economy.

Remarks by Federal Reserve Governor Ben S. Bernanke at the Sandridge Lecture entitled The Global Saving Glut and the U.S.

Ben Bernanke, the US Federal Reserve chairman, once famously pinned the whole US current account deficit on a global savings glut.

If nominal and real depreciation (appreciation) of the deficit (surplus) countries fails to occur, the deficit countries falling domestic demand and the surplus countries failure to reduce savings and increase consumption will lead to a global shortfall in aggregate demand in the face of a capacity glut.

There is a glut of film, the quality has to be raised, they need to go to the next level, but I m optimistic.

Talk abounds of a global savings glut. In fact, the world economy suffers not from too much saving, but from too little investment.

US Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke s notion of a global savings glut is a commonly cited explanation for falling world interest rates.

First and foremost, there is the global savings glut, an idea popularized by current Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in a 2005 speech.

US Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke s notion of a global savings glut is a commonly cited explanation for falling world interest rates.

There is a glut of film, the quality has to be raised, they need to go to the next level, but I'm optimistic.

They were talking about Exxon Valdez, and that there was going to be a glut of oil tankers because of the insurance industries.

But economists disagree on why we have the glut, how long it will last, and, most fundamentally, on whether it is a good thing.

In a March 2005 speech, Bernanke argued that this glut helps explain several features of the American economy, possibly including the enormous fiscal and trade deficits.

This means that all money earned is bound to be spent, and therefore that at no point in time could there be a general glut of commodities.

Indeed, it is misleading to term this situation a savings glut, for that would imply that countries running current account surpluses should reduce domestic incentives to save.

According to standard trade theory, a global labor glut ought to imply an increased rate of return on capital, which again pushes interest rates up, not down.

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There were no protective mechanisms to prevent a global liquidity glut from developing, and then, in combination with US regulatory failings, from producing a spectacular housing boom and crash.

Fear as much as institutional blockages may be the source of what is either a global savings glut or a global investment shortfall, depending on how you view it.