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they would be, it's called saving.

Every day I sell my stuff for promises of being able to get stuff for free tomorrow. It so happens that China has a ferociously large savings rate as a consequence of a terrible social safety net - there's a lot on the literature of this, Brad Setser is a good person to read regarding this.



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