Raising personal savings is an imperative for American families and an imperative for the national economy,

The longer-term trend is that we've got a remarkably competitive economy, ... In the Game .

U.S. budget and current account deficits are very important contributors to an unbalanced global economy, while the U.S. deficit has been a source of demand that has propelled the global economy forward for some years now.

I am worried that we will become a stratified economy, like many in Latin America where the prosperous and the advantaged stay prosperous, and the poor and disadvantaged stay poor,

dramatically simplify record keeping for more than 60 million families.

There's been a real reluctance to engage with a problem that affects a lot of American families and a lot of communities.