Re:Macron says €300B in EU savings sent to the US every year...
by pas on Thursday January 22, 2026 @05:57PM
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that's true to some extent, but at this point it's mostly a meme (at least the 60% number was)
> In 2023, 54 percent of adults said they had set aside money for three months of expenses in an emergency savings or “rainy day” fund—unchanged from 2022 but down from a high of 59 percent of adults in 2021.
Re:Macron says €300B in EU savings sent to the US every year...
by Havoc on Friday January 23, 2026 @04:14AM
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That’s way higher than I’d have guessed. Maybe there is some sort of bimodal distribution happening there. Half the pop is flat broke the other has multiple months of buffer
> In 2023, 54 percent of adults said they had set aside money for three months of expenses in an emergency savings or “rainy day” fund—unchanged from 2022 but down from a high of 59 percent of adults in 2021.
https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/2023-repor...
via
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/paycheck-to-paycheck-and-five-...