Wealthy Americans Hold Back on Spending
August 2, 2010
The wealthiest five percent of Americans, those earning $207,000 a year or more, account for 14 percent of spending in the U.S. This group’s reluctance to spend more on consumer goods is given as one of the reasons the economy grew 2.4 percent and not a higher figure for the second quarter.
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