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...best college-savings program you never heard about keeps getting better. As you think about year-end tax moves, consider dropping some cash into a state-sponsored plan where money for college grows tax-deferred and may garner a fat state income tax exemption as well. This plan is relatively new and often gets confused with more common prepaid-tuition plans, in which you pay today and attend later--removing worries about higher tuition in the future. Savings plans are vastly different and in most cases superior because they are more flexible...
...most recent global forecast; the Commerce Department said last month that in August the trade deficit ballooned $2.2 billion, to $16.8 billion. Warning signs abound that this involves more than just collapsing Asian and Latin American markets. After years of low unemployment, a number of major U.S. companies have responded to their earnings troubles with year-end job cuts, among them Merrill Lynch (3,400), Raytheon (14,000), LSI Logic (1,200) and Atlantic Richfield (900). For all of 1998, firings could hit 625,000, their high point for the decade...
...author John Steinbeck; and writers for the Seinfeld TV show. He's also working on a deal with songwriters for Tupac Shakur, Kim Carnes, Heart, Patti Smith, Joan Jett, Rod Stewart and Pat Benatar. Their royalties and those of other songwriters will be bundled and sold as bonds by year-end, Pullman says. He predicts half a dozen similar deals next year...
...such a banner year for Harvard sports, giving out The Crimson's annual year-end awards was a fine mix of joy and pain--joy at celebrating so many amazing athletic performances and pain at slighting teams and players by assigning their peers to arbitrary categories...
Other board members agreed in general but not always in detail. Robert Brusca, chief economist of Nikko Securities Co. International, one of the world's largest brokerages, sees only a nearly invisible rise in unemployment, to 4.7% at year-end, but an uptick in inflation, to a rate of 2.5%, with interest rates on 30-year Treasury bonds climbing to 6.5%, from below 6% in mid-March. In his view, the tight U.S. labor market will give inflation a nudge that the Federal Reserve will try to combat by raising interest rates. (Sinai, in contrast, predicts the Fed will...