As the Dow soars and 401(k) plans tax favoured, employer-sponsored retirement accounts get fatter, it is much easier to sell the notion of reforming Social Security through private investment accounts.
This is because so much of the benefit obligations of the program are shifted to financing through private savings and investment rather than public tax and spending redistribution.
With actually better benefits all paid through private savings, investment and insurance, there is no need or even place for Social Security benefit cuts, even if they were politically possible.
The Center expects that, within six months, this will take the form of offering Gorbachev U.S. taxpayer-supported credit lines through the Export-Import Bank and the Commodity Credit Corporation, as well as government-backed insurance coverage through the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
Those who have come such as the family of U.S.-based Palestinian businessman Hani al-Masri have cushioned their investments with hefty doses of political protection, by putting family members in Mr. Arafat's Cabinet and arranging for U.S. taxpayer-funded guarantees through the Overseas Private Investment Corp.
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Not enough, admittedly, to feed through into either private business investment (flat) or retail-sales growth (falling).
Through its regulation of the private investment firms among which personal account investors can choose, the government can limit and control the risks workers can take on with their personal accounts, preventing moral hazard from the guarantee.
Through the Recovery Act, public investment spurred greater private investment.
The concept was developed by Johnathan Holifield co-founder of The America21 Project, a national initiative connecting African and Latino Americans to the 21st century Innovation Economy, through STEM education, high-growth entrepreneurship and private capital formation and investment.
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Then came the investment that had the potential to make large sums of money through private placements and Halper was listening.
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It is especially useful in private equity because a partner's original investment in a fund is often made through an offshore trust.
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