Let me try another post to make things clearer. The definition in economics for investment is a purchase of goods and services which is used by a business to produce more goods and\or services. The definition for investment that you use when you talk to your stock broker is money used to purchase stocks or something that you will get a return on (hopefully). They are not the same thing.
The total financial wealth in the country increases every year. That is called the savings rate (you also have some wealth either coming in or out of the country). The savings rate is the money, taken out of total income that is not spent in the economy on either consumption, investment, government spending, and imports. It's a little bit more complicated than this but I don't want to type out a textbook. This money that is saved is a drain on the economy and it is also the increase of the financial wealth in the country.
The total financial wealth in the country increases every year. That is called the savings rate (you also have some wealth either coming in or out of the country). The savings rate is the money, taken out of total income that is not spent in the economy on either consumption, investment, government spending, and imports. It's a little bit more complicated than this but I don't want to type out a textbook. This money that is saved is a drain on the economy and it is also the increase of the financial wealth in the country.
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