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| Category: featured Articles that have been selected as having more than transitory interest. Retirement plans By John Schroy, on February 23rd, 2006 |  Leave a comment  Between 1999 and 2002, US private pension funds lost US$ 1.2 trillion in value. It would almost seem that pension fund managers had been speculating with retirement money, attempting to beat each others’ short-term performance statistics, with little interest in safeguarding the assets of plan beneficiaries. Political intrusion and trade unionism have debilitated the pension fund industry over many generations. The end of the pension industry may now be in sight. February 23rd, 2006 | Print Article |  Email Article |  Topics: 401(k) plans, Alan Greenspan, annuities, Arthur Levitt, Benjamin Graham, Bill Clinton, CFA, common stock legend, Corporate Governance, defined benefit pensions, Democratic Party, dividends, Enron, ERISA, Financial Economists Roundtable, Franklin Roosevelt, insurance company, Lyndon Johnson, Myron Scholes, Pension Benefits Guarantee Corporation, pension fund, pension plans, price earnings ratios, Robert B Reich, Robert E Rubin, Ronald H Brown, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Total Returns, trade unions | Category: US Politics, featured | Leave a comment |  Short urlWorld Economy By John Schroy, on February 19th, 2006 | Leave a comment  It used to be that the term ‘international liquidity’ meant the relative amount of resources available to a nation’s monetary authorities that could be used to settle a balance of payments deficit. In the days of the gold standard, this would mean access to gold that could be used to redeem a nation’s currency held by foreigners. After Bretton Woods and the advent of the dollar-gold exchange standard, liquidity came to mean access to dollars, either held as reserves or as credit lines, or the SDR system maintained by the International Monetary Fund. February 19th, 2006 | Print Article | Email Article | Topics: central bank, Currencies, gold standard, IMF, international liquidity | Category: World Economy, featured | Leave a comment | Short urlUS Demographics By John Schroy, on February 3rd, 2006 | One comment  Legal immigration has resulted in solid growth of the US population, despite declining birth rates and an increasing number of old people. This is good news for investors in stocks and real estate . Despite loud railing against illegal immigration by Bill O’Reilly, Lou Dobbs, Michelle Malkin, and Pat Buchanan, the real story is the size and scope of legal immigration. Illegal immigration appears to be less than 5% of legal immigration, and legal immigration is at an all time high. February 3rd, 2006 | Print Article | Email Article | Topics: Bill O'Reilly, China, deindustrialization, Democratic Party, Globalization, immigration, Lou Dobbs, Michelle Malkin, Pat Buchanan, South Korea, trade unions, Vietnam | Category: US Politics, featured | One comment | Short urlFeatured articles on inside pages
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