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Advice to Invest Less in U.S. Bonds
Foreigners Can Do Better, Summers Says
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/21/AR2006062101740.html
(hope that isn't too long a link)
Foreigners Can Do Better, Summers Says
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/21/AR2006062101740.html
(hope that isn't too long a link)
...he pointed out that at an annual return of 5 percent -- a conservative estimate for the long-run yield on a sensible stock portfolio -- the $2 trillion in excess reserves could produce average annual yields of about $100 billion. That is more than all the rich countries in the world spend on foreign aid to poorer countries each year.