Look at global economics from a moral point of view, and it’s a story of virtue rewarded. Growth in the West, fueled by easy credit and consumption, collapsed in the 2008 financial crisis. Growth in the East, by contrast, fueled by saving and production, has held steady. But look more carefully, and the reality is that Asia’s legendary culture of saving, while not quite a myth, is fast declining in many places.
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