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...Three Mile Island plant in 1979 and the disaster at Chernobyl seven years later, but these days, with worldwide demand for energy rising sharply, oil prices spiking at over $60 per bbl., and fears growing among the public at large about the lasting impact of greenhouse gases, the outlook for nuclear today is, well, quite radiant. This September, some 300 executives from the world of energy and politics clambered into a huge hole in the Finnish town of Olkiluoto to watch a laser light show as the climax to the ground breaking for the first nuclear plant to be built...
...approached this coastal city that will host the Summit of the Americas, where President Bush faces a difficult time in discussions with Latin American heads of state. He's still being dogged by questions about the CIA leak investigation, while his domestic poll numbers continue to fall. And the outlook for the administration on the substance of this summit is less optimistic than in previous meetings of the leaders of the Western Hemisphere...
...Greenspan is much less transparent than Bernanke,” said Jorgenson. “When [Bernanke] gets in front of a microphone, he is very clear about the outlook for the economy...
...Greenspan is much less transparent than Bernanke,” said Jorgenson. “When [Bernanke] gets in front of a microphone, he is very clear about the outlook for the economy...
Perhaps the best yardstick to assess the outlook for the later years is the defined-benefit pension, long the gold standard for retirement because it guarantees a fixed income for life. The number of such plans offered by corporations has plunged from 112,200 in 1985 to 29,700 today. Since 1985, the number of active workers covered in the private sector declined from 22 million to 17 million. They are the last members of what once promised to be the U.S.'s golden retirement era, and they are fast disappearing. From 2001 to 2004, nearly 200 corporations...