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Stay the Course Financially

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

personal saving rate bottomed out at around 1% in the third quarter of 2005. Cryder George Loewenstein titled “Tightwads and Spendthrifts” which found that: “Consumers often behave differently than they would ideally like to behave. During the long 7 years since the crisis, many people lost jobs and houses.