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If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars
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"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"

- Garet Garrett

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