Word: investers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...package, he argues, clearly benefits the rich: When recent payroll tax increases are figured in, the Reagan cuts actually produce a net tax increase for families earning $10,000 or less. Moreover, this upward redistribution of wealth comes with no guarantees that the rich will use their windfall to invest in productivity-enhancing ventures. Rather Lekachman shows that new depreciation tax rules create more tax shelters and huge new incentives for speculation in real estate and commodities...
...finally unloaded the Pacific Palisades home that he had been trying to sell for more than a year, calls the housing picture a "nightmare." Last week, in a talk to the National Association of Realtors, Reagan proposed a plan to boost house sales. He would allow pension funds to invest more in housing, for example, and make more first-time house buyers eligible for loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration. The realtors and the National Association of Home Builders, though, regarded the action as much too modest in view of the troubles the industry faces...
Mutual fund companies and brokerage houses, for example, are trying to wrest IRA dollars away from banks and S and Ls by offering investments in stocks, bonds, money-market securities and even oil ventures. Insurance companies are touting so-called fixed-annuity plans that guarantee predetermined annual payouts during retirement. Many investment firms are encouraging corporations to set up programs that allow employees to invest in IRAs through payroll deductions. The Dreyfus Corp. of New York City, for example, already manages employee IRAs for more than 50 companies, including Warner Communications, RCA Corp. and Esmark...
...campus left, here was member of the Conservative Club and everyone was sure the night unanimity was about to varnish, a no-hitter ruined with two out in the ninth. But Cooper told the Advisors Committee on Shareholder Responsibility that his organization thought if wrong for Harvard to invest in banks lending to South Africa Before he sat down, however, he advanced another argument that it was hypocritical of those assembled to talk only about apartheid and not about the oppression of the gulag Communist in all its forms, he said, merited the same condemnation...
...British stage cast will open the Papp production at the Drury Lane Theater there in May. Riley, who saw Pirates in Central Park and thought it "absolutely marvelous," has reason to hope that Londoners will endorse the stage show. A benefactor gave the faltering troupe .?150,000 to invest in Papp's London Pirates, and the profits, if any, will be used to resuscitate D'Oyly Carte. The idea of old conventions saved by audacious newcomers is an irony that Savoyards may resent. But Gilbert would have cherished it, and Sullivan would have set it to music...