The Daily Briefing: September 30 Conventional wisdom in Washington over the past few weeks has held that the failure to achieve notable progress in Iraq and...
Andy, From what I saw on CNN tonight, if a former CIA analyst is to be believed, it may not be Rove but his counterpart in the Executive Office Building on...
The Daily Briefing: October 2 "I'm saying that if Mr. Rove is not involved, I'll eat the paperback copy of my own book because this is a guy who controls...
Report Offered Bleak Outlook About Iraq Oil By JEFF GERTH The findings of a secret government task force established last fall contradicted the Bush...
Retirement saving put on hold No way, younger workers say, citing difficult economy By T. Shawn Taylor Tribune staff reporter October 5, 2003 Even as younger...
Read the article below and imagine, for a moment, that SS and Medicare had been retained as DB plans, but made true ones way back 40 years ago--that is both...
'In his later years, he took public stands on economic policy issues, especially Social Security policy. "He has the perfect Social Security program, if only...
There are only two others that have the slightest clue as to how to do the financial structure properly for SS AND HAVE SO STATED PUBLICALLY, Bill Clinton and...
__NPR's Terry Gross to Grover Norquist: 'Did You Just Compare the Estate Tax With the Holocaust?' From NPR's Fresh Air: "GROVER NORQUIST: [Discussing the death...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42232-2003Oct3.html ... Maybe all the others are wrong. Maybe those in the Bush administration who claim we can...
Please see http://www.ibmemployee.com/ for summary links to message board posts and articles in the press of interest to IBM employees, ex-employees,...
Lumps of Labor By PAUL KRUGMAN Apologists say that America's job losses are due to a structural problem with the economy rather than the Bush administration's...
Bank of America, now in trouble again. They were the very first company to convert to a cash balance plan in 1985. Questions: 1. What high-up official in the...
First they came for union workers in manufacturing. Then they came for hourly non-union workers in manufacturing. Then they came for salaried low wage workers....
__Arnold's Election Could Cost California Taxpayers $9 Billion Greg Palast reports, "Thirty-four pages of internal Enron memoranda have just come through this...
__Seige Heil: the Bush-Rove-Schwarzenegger Nazi Nexus and the Destabilization of California Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman write, "George W. Bush's ...
http://tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/9071 ... So the battle in past years, and this year, is prescription drugs. The fight is not over whether to add a drug...
THE DAILY SCAN By MARK INGEBRETSEN A Medicare Prescription Plan May Affect Retirement Benefits Some analysts believe both versions of a bill "to add...
Big Board Ponders Pay Disclosures By LANDON THOMAS Jr. John S. Reed, the interim chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, is considering details of the...
PBS' Frontline Examines How Rummy's NeoCon Cabal Manipulated 9-11 Into the Conquest of Iraq FRONTLINE traces the roots of the Iraqi war back to the days ...
__The Cost of War in Iraq is $78 Billion and Counting "War affects everyone, not just those directly involved in the fighting. This webpage is a simple attempt...
Supreme Court Pension Win Employee Advocate – DukeEmployees.com – October 10, 2003 Ellen E. Schultz reported in the Wall Street Journal that the US Supreme...
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/09/opinion/09JACK.html ... Last week the federal government ended the fiscal year with a reported deficit of approximately $400...
Officials Due $133 Million at Big Board By LANDON THOMAS Jr. The disclosures underscore how the New York Stock Exchange has paid all its senior executives on a...
There he goes again...Aaaaanald is a big buddy with Kenneth (Kenny Boy') Lay and The Bush's and met with him right before all the stuff about Enron came out. ...
__Rummy's Grouchier than Usual after Being Left in the Cold on Iraq Policy "The most shocking development within the Bush White House has been the public rise...
__U.S. Should Give UN 'Real Authority,' Former CIA Chief Says "The United States needs to give the United Nations 'some real authority' in Iraq to avoid the...
__A Society at Risk "We in America consider ourselves a generous people -- and in many ways we are. Yet hunger, homelessness and inadequate health care ...
The use of fixed income rates, regardless of how arrived at, is only appropriate if the DB system is NOT long term and more or less permanent in nature. For...
A copy of my followup post in the SOA forum: BTW, this stuff about stocks being a superior asset class for DB pension funds has been known for more than a half...
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