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...Investment bankers bring together parties that need funds and parties that have funds to invest. If a company needs more capital in order to grow, to build a new plant or to hire more employees, it calls in an investment bank. If a city needs money to improve its ailing infrastructure, it also goes to an investment bank...
...investment bankers set up a financial structure that allows the party to raise the capital it needs. People looking to invest money for their future can buy the stocks and bonds that the investment bankers have underwritten...
...commission's chairman, Senator Bob Kerrey, a Nebraska Democrat, already stirred the pot last Friday when he and panel vice chairman John Danforth of Missouri, a retiring Republican Senator, proposed further reforms by raising the retirement age to 70, cutting the payroll-tax rate and requiring workers to invest the savings. Any money saved by such reforms could be used to reduce the budget deficit. But Washington politicians will be more tempted to cut taxes, especially in a way targeted to working families near the median income of $37,000 a year, whose real wages continue to slide despite robust...
...confidence they would get their money back from Social Security. Hearing this, Kerrey saw an opening to outflank Gingrich on the issue of personal responsibility vs. Big Government, according to a commission source. "Let's ask people, 'What would you prefer, a payroll-tax cut that lets you invest the money, or would you rather trust your government...
...high-rolling wizard when it came to public money. In 1979 Citron helped change a state law to allow counties to - borrow vast amounts through arrangements called reverse repurchase agreements. Such deals permit treasurers to take out what amount to short-term loans from firms like Merrill Lynch and invest the proceeds in longer-term bonds that pay more interest. In pursuit of this strategy, Citron added a boggling $12.5 billion of borrowed bonds to the $7.7 billion of public funds that he supervised...