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US savings rate has been on a long slow decline since 1959 to 2005.
Ignoring the fake Covid boom, the rate of decline has been quite severe over the last 5 years.
Curent Graph pattern hitting a nadir, thus replicating what happened prior to the GFC .



Very similar in Oztralia



EEC Consumer Debt (EUR 7.8B) to EEC population (350M)
USA Consumer Debt (USD 8.9B) to USA population (335M)
Src: trading-economics

So The EEC credit consumer is in at least as bad a shape as the US credit consumer,.