The net national saving rate (businesses, households, and the government combined) stood at just 2.9% of national income in mid-2015, less than half the 6.3% average over the final three decades of the twentieth century. As China shifts from surplus saving to saving absorption – using its surpluses to build a safety net for the Chinese people rather than subsidize the savings of Americans – a saving-short US will find it tough to fill the void.
在很大程度上，美国的不安反映出其无法解决核心经济问题——主要是国内储蓄不足。2015年年中净国民储蓄率（企业、家庭和政府之和）只占国民收入的2.9%，还不到二十世纪最后三十年的平均储蓄率6.3%的一半。随着中国从储蓄剩余转向吸收储蓄——利用其剩余储蓄为中国人构建安全网，而不是补贴美国人的储蓄——储蓄不足的美国将发现难以填补空白。