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I Heard That To Stimulate Savings, The Swiss Government Contributes To Their Citizens Accounts – Is This True?

By Increase Savings | Published: September 25, 2009

I think I heard Clark Howard discussing this, saying that the Swiss goverment would contribute 25% of what is saved. I think this would be something that US government should look into since the savings rate for 2006 hit a low of -1% (as reported by ABC News). They probably shouldn’t look at matching contributions [...]

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