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...Premium health care is an outgrowth of the increased consumption of luxury goods and services that were once largely unaffordable in China--from cars to Louis Vuitton pocketbooks. According to Euromonitor International, from 2005 to January of last year, China's middle class grew 24%, from 64.4 million to 80 million. The London-based business-intelligence-research firm projects that strong economic growth could push the figure as high as 700 million...
...both Ohio and Kentucky - and the Long Island Power Authority in New York, which also sold bonds that day - paid much more of a premium over Treasuries than they would have before the credit crunch began in the summer of 2007, says Matt Fabian, managing director at Municipal Market Advisors. Ohio, for instance, is paying almost 1 percentage point more in yield for 20-year bonds than it did a year ago. "Maybe this is the new normal," says Fabian...
...calls him a “bulldog”—the toughest part of adjusting to professional ball hasn’t been the better hitters or the work with unfamiliar pitches. It’s been the focus on the individual over the team, the decreased premium placed on winning...
...part of the program, which provides coverage for a wide range of interventions, families pay a small premium determined by a scale inversely proportional to their income; families in the poorest fifth of the country’s demographic pay nothing...
...like the halcyon days of the past—heavy deleveraging threatens to cut into profits, and Congressional leaders are already clamoring to include limits on executive compensation in the proposed bailout plan in return for taking toxic mortgage-backed securities off Wall Street’s hands at premium prices...