She is now wondering whether debt-crazed governments are peddling a pig in a poke, and using the growing panic about pensions to do so.

ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

For every 100 eggs used, a researcher is lucky to end up with a single cloned calf or a solitary pig in a poke.

ECONOMIST: Cloning around

I'm not going to buy a pig in a poke.

CNN: Issa: Holder must turn over documents or face contempt vote

Call it the pig-in-a-poke stratagem.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: New START, old stratagem