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.

FORBES: Newt Gingrich's Entitlement Reform Plan

Not enough, admittedly, to feed through into either private business investment (flat) or retail-sales growth (falling).

ECONOMIST: China

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.

FORBES: A Personal Account Option For Social Security

Through the Recovery Act, public investment spurred greater private investment.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

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.

FORBES: Inclusion: The Missing Link In Economic Competitiveness

Then came the investment that had the potential to make large sums of money through private placements and Halper was listening.

FORBES: Sky Capital Investors Get Their Day In Court -- Individual Investors Take Note

It is especially useful in private equity because a partner's original investment in a fund is often made through an offshore trust.

ECONOMIST: Private equity in the spotlight