This seems like a logical thing to do when you are uncertain about the future, including the future of your job.
So although there are certainly issues of concern about how consumers manage credit and debt, it turns out that maybe we aren’t quite so irresponsible as a nation after all.
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Steve Webb is director of policy at Royal London and author of the paper: ‘Has Britain really stopped saving?’
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