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Need some fast cash? Deepgreen Bank will wire you as much as $25,000 in 20 minutes. In the market for a mortgage? Everbank will shell out $300 if you find a competitor with lower rates. Savings account? ING Direct offers 4.75% interest--no fees or minimum balance required. All good deals, but we doubt you'll take the bait. E-banks, it seems, can't even give money away. Despite being offered great rates, muscular security and ubiquitous ATMs, consumers are reluctant to store money in the ether. They fear thieving hackers, even though the deposits are federally insured...
...those with household incomes between $50,000 and $125,000 a year--spend less than an hour a month planning for their retirement. That's just one of several blunders identified by "Boomers on the Brink," a survey of 35-to-55-year-olds' retirement-savings strategies conducted by ING Aetna Financial Services...
...Failing to protect your main asset: you. Nearly 40% of workers surveyed in the ING report don't have disability insurance. Yet the same percentage have a good chance of being out of work for three months or more at some point. Solution: Get some disability insurance--the inflation-indexed kind is best...
...credit open to delinquent debtors, a move that has put a straitjacket on liquidity and dampened investment. Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad clings to a peg that has hugely overvalued the ringgit. "It's going to take Thailand and Malaysia 10 years," says Tim Condon, chief economist at ING Barings. "So far, most Asian economies aren't willing to let the market have its way with them...
...know if it'll work or if it won't, but you've got no choice." Some worry Koizumi is trying too much, too soon. "He's promised structural reforms, along with clearing up bank loans and cutting government debt?all at once," says Richard Jerram, chief economist at ING Barings in Tokyo. "But as companies restructure, more people lose jobs and tax revenue goes down, increasing government debt. Unemployed people also spend less money, forcing more companies to fail. That increases banks' nonperforming loans. It's S&M economics...