Wilpon on Wednesday didn't deny the reason for the Mets' thriftiness in recent years.

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An unintended consequence of this thriftiness is that economists are not equipped to understand the behavior of highly-indebted people.

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And emphasize your thriftiness: angels don't want to see the money being used for big salaries or fancy office space.

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But the June drop suggests that absent government stimulus money, the American consumer really can't save much more and that the rise in savings rates might be less a sign of a new thriftiness than it is a short-term tendency to hoard anything extra that comes in.

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