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...Better Returns. With Social Security, funds set aside for the future earn a minimal return over time, because the government invests them conservatively, in Treasury bonds. Investing in the stock and bond markets via private accounts could allow those dollars to grow faster...
...Encourage Savings. Private accounts reinforce a mind-set of saving. When you see a direct connection between what you put in now and how it can grow in the future, you may be motivated to save more elsewhere...
...reliable bellwether for the nationalist wing of the Moscow élite, Belkovsky turned on Putin last week. In an interview with TIME, he dismissed the President as "a minor clerk" who ended up running Russia "by a stroke of luck." He claimed that "disappointment and irritation" with Putin are growing in the middle ranks of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor to the KGB and a crucial Putin power base. And he predicted that opposition will continue to grow - and that it could even drive Putin from office before the end of his second term...
...Selig Center for Economic Growth at the University of Georgia. U.S. Hispanic buying power has more than tripled in the past 15 years, to $686 billion, whereas total U.S. buying power has grown at less than half that rate. The Selig Center projects that Hispanic buying power will grow an additional 45%, to $992 billion, by the end of the decade; and the U.S. Census Bureau says the Hispanic population will triple, to 102.5 million, by 2050, when Hispanics will make up nearly 25% of the U.S. population. (The group now has a 14% population share...
...homes, only a handful of systems have gone into commercial operation because of the high costs of upgrading networks to carry data-intensive video. In the past few years, however, pay TV has become more alluring. According to Media Partners Asia, the industry in Asia is expected to grow by more than 14% this year to $15.5 billion. That's new business phone companies desperately need to offset declines in local and long-distance call revenues, which are under attack from competitors such as Internet-based telephony providers. Some of the fiercest rivals in this new field are cable firms...