"If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't."

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Source : Garet Garrett (1965). “The people's pottage”, Caxton Printers

Garet Garrett

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