national savings

national savings
   lending to the government
   There are many other ways in which citizens may save, contributing to a national accumulation of wealth:
    One form of lending to the government is called 'national savings'. This is one of those maddeningly misleading expressions which summon patriotism to the aid of deception. (Heffer, 1998, quoting Enoch Powell)

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