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...critics, the plan smacks of oil-fueled excess, an attempt to one-up rivals on the mad dash across the Arabian Peninsula to build the tallest, biggest, glitziest structures. Their coffers bulging with surpluses, many Persian Gulf states are turning their desert into one giant construction site. There's the City of Silk project in Kuwait, Dubailand in Dubai and any number of ports, airports, universities and giant residential and industrial complexes abuilding in Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain and elsewhere. KAEC "is not a vanity project, but there is definitely a statement being made," says a Riyadh businessman who asked...
...damage had been mounting so swiftly that in the midst of a global stock-market rout that ate 18% of the Dow, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson was forced to import a plan he once considered practically un-American. Paralleling a program authored by U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown, it called for the U.S. government to take partial ownership of nine leading banks and offer to buy pieces of hundreds of others. On Oct. 13, the nine bank bosses, assembled in the Treasury's imposing boardroom, were each handed a piece of paper with the terms: $25 billion of preferred shares...
...heading rapidly toward retirement, and refocused them on saving. "We must have a reset on consumer spending; frankly, it is out of control," says Daniel J. Houston, president of retirement investor services at Principal Financial Group in Des Moines, Iowa. The average contribution to a 401(k) plan is 7% of salary, yet the average person may need to save 13% to 15% of his salary to maintain his standard of living in retirement. For people 10 years from retirement, "this might be the best wake-up call we ever got," says Houston...
...have to think of it as a forecaster. The market looked into the future and saw a horizon darkened by a complete collapse of lending and the prospect of a long, deep recession. So Paulson and Bernanke changed course, as have some investors. "We can always adjust our retirement plan by a couple of years just to ride this out," says Linda Gallegos, 54, of Golden, Colo. She and her husband Gary have two 401(k)s. "I've been thinking, Oh, my God, this could be bad. But I feel pretty powerless to do anything. I figure, what goes...
...starters, your health history could ratchet up your monthly premium--or keep you from getting covered in the first place. And a lower monthly premium tends to come with a higher annual deductible. Humana's Monogram plan, for instance, pairs its $30 premium with a staggering $7,500 deductible. And the preventive-care coverage in these plans may not extend much beyond an annual physical. So consumers who don't look past price per month--a more traditional individual plan might charge a $400 premium and a deductible closer to $500--may find themselves shelling out thousands more dollars down...