Americans Have Almost Depleted Excess Savings, SF Fed Study Says
- Pandemic savings may finally be spent by end of third quarter
- Recent revisions to government data have changed the picture
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Excess savings US households built up during the pandemic will probably be exhausted in the current quarter, according to research from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, removing a key support for consumer spending that has boosted the US economy this year.
“Our updated estimates suggest that households held less than $190 billion of aggregate excess savings by June,” San Francisco Fed researchers Hamza Abdelrahman and Luiz Oliveira said in a blog post published Wednesday on the bank’s website.