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...high fees, for one - Ghilarducci didn't think she was courting controversy. "I was saying things that seemed completely milquetoast," she recalls. Ghilarducci did bring up a bold proposal to replace the 401(k) with a mandatory, government-run pension plan and suggested that Congress immediately allow retirees to swap 401(k)s battered by the stock market's collapse for monthly payouts from the government. But she had floated both ideas before, to little effect. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
Better Place, founded in 2007 with the encouragement of the Israeli government, allows electric car users access to charging stations and battery swap locations powered by renewable energy for a fee. The company’s model has been implemented in Israel and Denmark, and plans have been made to introduce the infrastructure to California’s Bay Area and Hawaii...
...tuck their reactions and biases into some remote corner of their minds and allow a doppelgänger to emerge. What doppelgänger is most likely to elicit information from a detainee changes from prisoner to prisoner. Sometimes I must have a wife or children, so I can swap stories with the prisoner, though I have neither...
...Beginning in mid-October, Lee sprang into action. The government earmarked $100 billion to guarantee new foreign debt for banks through mid-2009 in a bid to maintain the economy's access to foreign-currency borrowing. Shortly afterward, the Bank of Korea finalized a currency-swap agreement with the Federal Reserve to ensure a supply of dollars for the economy, which gave a big boost to confidence. In early November, the Finance Ministry announced an $11 billion stimulus package that included tax breaks and new infrastructure spending. The moves have recently brought some stability to stock and currency markets...
...promote prosperity among its restive farmers, who have largely been bypassed by China's economic boom. Currently, farmers are entitled to the proceeds from their sales but do not own the land--a system easily exploited by corrupt officials and developers. Beijing hopes the reforms--enabling farmers to lease, swap, subcontract and transfer land-use rights--will help double the average disposable income among the nation's 730 million rural residents, to more than...