Last spring E-Trade, whose supermarket is still tiny, disquieted higher-cost rivals by announcing it would rebate up to half of the 12b-1 marketing fees (a component of some expense ratios) and other supermarket charges to customers.

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True enough, but if so, and to be consistent, they must seek cuts in a defense budget that similarly fosters dependency among higher earners whose income is almost solely a function of a massive budget funded by the rest of us.

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To the extent that both large and small investors already have shares in a firm whose share price is boosted by inside information, investors logically achieve higher returns for the new information reflected in the stock price.

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They said more research is needed to find out if women whose partners served in the war really were at higher risk.

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Take New York State, where the 529 plan is run by TIAA-CREF, whose bread and butter is annuities for professors and which has a strong institutional interest in supporting higher education.

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Labor shortage is good news for consumer incomes (at least for those consumers whose labor warrants the higher wages) but only if consumer spending rises at the same or faster pace than consumer incomes, and productivity growth is the same as or exceeds wage growth.

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