Word: interest
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...addition, the bill would permit private prepaid tuition plans to enjoy the same benefits as state prepaid plans--allowing families to accrue interest from investments tax-free...
Students would also directly benefit from a portion of the legislation which allows individuals to earn tax credits for interest on higher education loans for the life of the loan, effectively repealing a current 60-month limit...
...most popular is that the country finally has the kind of policy guidance it needs to get turned around. That leadership takes a variety of forms. The Bank of Japan, for instance, has been telegraphing with very un-Greenspan-like candor that it intends to keep short-term interest rates near zero. At the same time, an encouraging amount of "micro-reform" is under way in Japan--tiny revolutions in entrepreneurial companies that may forge a Japan built for the Internet age. As some Japanese like to observe, they spent 40 years building the world's best industrial economy. What...
...Administration plan is devoted to paying off the national debt and ensuring the solvency of Social Security and Medicare. Clinton would set aside a third of the projected surplus--or $374 billion--for replenishing Medicare funds that could otherwise expire by 2015. And he would put the interest savings that result from debt reduction into Social Security trust funds, which otherwise will run out by 2034. Moreover, sopping up red ink would ease the need for federal borrowing and pave the way for lower interest rates throughout the economy...
Media critic Alex S. Jones and former NBC News President Michael Gartner are among candidates for the top post at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and the Public Interest, according to Sheila P. Burke, the Kennedy School Executive Dean who co-chairs the search committee...