After the crisis ended investment rates resumed their growth at rate of 10% per year.
This rise in investment rate depends on many sectors of the economy.
Several countries with investment rates enviable by American standards are economic basket cases.
The original investment rate was 5% and the first mortgage was for £120.
But junk bonds did not increase overall savings or investment rates.
Part of the reason for low investment rates lay in the inability to acquire capital from abroad.
Differences in the investment rates between countries very often mirror different levels of economic development and catching-up processes.
In large part because of our low investment rate, our technology base is rapidly eroding.
On May 26, 2009 the 91-day Treasury bill was auctioned at an investment rate of 0.178%.
Moreover, the strictures against maximum investment rates were vindicated, as we have seen above.