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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
undersave .
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Examples
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It was clear as could be that the US consumer was grossly overleveraged (credit cards, mortgages and installment loans) and undersaved (savings rates close to zero) while yields on corporate debt were absurdly low (which turned out to be due to the then mostly unknown and essentially invisible proliferaton of credit default swaps).
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Say what you will about baby boomers having undersaved for retirement: They've still got an estimated $8.7 trillion tied up in retirement savings plans.
Banks Push Bigger Home Down Payments Cristina Lourosa-Ricardo 2011
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That boost has ended, because many families overborrowed, overspent and undersaved.
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With many pundits writing alarmist literature for so long on the overspent and undersaved U.S. consumer, investors were always skeptical about the strength of the largely debtfinanced U.S. housing boom.
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The average American consumer "is overindebted and undersaved," he added.
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"As a whole, Canadians have undersaved for their retirement," Tina Di Vito, the director of retirement strategies at BMO Financial, tells me.
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"As a whole, Canadians have undersaved for their retirement," Tina Di Vito, the director of retirement strategies at BMO Financial, tells me.
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That boost has ended, because many families overborrowed, overspent and undersaved.
CJR 2010
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"As a whole, Canadians have undersaved for their retirement," Tina Di Vito, the director of retirement strategies at BMO Financial, tells me.
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You overspent, undersaved, and mortgaged your own future.
Cafferty File 2009
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