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A bond can be secured by any dependable stream of revenue--corporate earnings, tax receipts, mortgage payments, Bag of Bones royalties. Bag of Bones? Well, yes, not to mention Carrie, The Shining and The Green Mile. You see, Wall Street financier David Pullman, who in 1997 rocked investors with "Bowie...
We join the chorus of world leaders in asking that Arafat and Barak, as well as the Israeli and Palestinian people, find the strength they need to continue to work towards peace. For Barak, the challenge will be to convince the Israeli public that unilateral action for peace, rather than...
Letting people invest their own money, says Bush, will produce better long-term returns than keeping all Social Security revenues in the hands of the government. So he uses about half the Social Security surplus--roughly $1 trillion--to give young workers the right to divert some of their payroll...
First, investment in private securities will not bring the benefits that its supporters have claimed. Both stocks and bonds are evaluated on the same scale of risks and return; to argue that stocks will continue to provide higher risk-adjusted returns than bonds in the future is to say that...
Second, simple-minded comparisons of a two percent Social Security return with seven percent returns from stock investments ignore the cost of pre-funding the system. As Barro has written, Social Security's return is so low--lower, in fact, than the Treasury bonds in which it invests-- because today...