a decade of ...

Yes, that is what it appears to mean. It's rather an awkward locution, though.

It is poor English. A decade is a period of time, not a amount of money. "A decade's worth of their savings" or "the savings they had accumulated over a decade" might have been better.

The economic crisis has shaken that confidence. Chinese economic leaders have seen the American financial system subject a decade of their savings to potentially catastrophic fluctuations.




It is NOT poor English, Fansy. Contrex says some pretty dumb things sometimes. Prescriptivists whine about wordiness yet that's just what Contrex advises.

It is completely understandable. In this sentence, a decade is still a period of time.

The economic crisis has shaken that confidence. Chinese economic leaders have seen the American financial system subject a decade/ten years of their savings to potentially catastrophic fluctuations.

JTT is an obsessive forum troll.

I'm not on ignore!?

Why would you have gone thru that childish song and dance about putting everyone on ignore? Are you usually prone to such prevarication?