Brazil'smiddleclassis swelling: at the lastcountthere were 97m people in marketingbracket "c", which meansthey are rich enough to contemplate getting on an aeroplane.
The folks who waited until this year to take their first RMDs will have to take two RMDs in this calendar year (one by April 1 to count for the 2010 distribution, and the other by Dec. 31 to count for 2011), possibly putting them in a higher marginal tax bracket.