But mobile money and other new ideas that could help the poor (see article) provide a useful reminder that financial innovation in itself is not always a bad thing.

ECONOMIST: Telecoms

Let your friends and contacts know, for example, if you just attended a full-day seminar on a topic that would be useful to a future employer, post an interesting article related to your field, or add new skills or relevant experience to your profile.

FORBES: Job Search Success is the Best Revenge

For purposes of this article we would like to introduce a new and more useful perspective for pensions in their analysis of soft dollars or any other brokerage issue.

FORBES: Pensions and Brokerage: The Brokerage Battlefield Revisited (October 1, 2000)

The Survivor Benefit is not related to the Spousal Benefit, although certain portions of the article with further explanations of the Spousal Benefit will be useful to review as we discuss the Survivor Benefit.

FORBES: The Social Security Survivor Benefit - Part 1

The euro area may also suffer from an imminent slowdown in eastern Europe, which has been a useful source of demand but where several economies look newly vulnerable (see article).

ECONOMIST: Europe's economies