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I will pass it over to jd foster. Pleasure to have you with us today. Nice to be here with my colleague, randy. Before we begin i want to acknowledge the people in houston and those suffering from hurricane harvey. Wish them on behalf of the chamber the safety and swiftest possible recovery from what theyre dealing with. The economy is in its ninth year of expansion. Which is fairly notable. That makes it the third longest in modern era. By next spring we will have tied for second and curiously, despite the length of the recovery and expansion, we seem to be possibly heading into a period of a...

Thank you very much for coming today. I think well get started. Welcome to all the American Enterprise institute. Im andrew biggs. And todays session is titled what can irs data tell us about Retirement Income. I can imagine a bgrade thriller movie that the tag line said what if everything you knew were wrong. This is a slightly modified version. The tag line might be, what if many of the things you know were wrong and what if many of those were about Retirement Incomes . Its not something quite as thrilling but something thats actually very, very important. And i think the fact is that much o...

Math and sue herera are off tonight, so its just you and me. The dow snapped its sixday win stream as shares of General Electric weighed on Investor Sentiment and saw their biggest decline in six year. Well have more on that story in a moment, but first the closing numbers. The dow did hit an intraday high today, but finally fell 54 points to 23,273. The nasdaq was down by 42 points, the s p fell by ten. The prospects of tax reform has long been a big driver for this stock market, but one tax proposal that got a lot of buzz over the weekend was changing popular 401 k retirement plans. Thats li...

[cheers and applause] john the phrase American Dream came with a book written in the midst of the depression america is that dream of a land where life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone and for many people the dream has come true but now ayatollah something is wrong. It is no longer accessible is it suffering or alive and well . 75 percent said suffering. Is that true . How many of you think is as achievable as it was before . [cheers and applause] how many of you feel not so much . [applause] pray pessimistic. What a man who people say has lived the dream to creative for med...

[cheers and applause] john the phrase American Dream came with a book written in the midst of the depression america is that dream of a land where life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone and for many people the dream has come true but now ayatollah something is wrong. It is no longer accessible is it suffering or alive and well . 75 percent said suffering. Is that true . How many of you think is as achievable as it was before . [cheers and applause] how many of you feel not so much . [applause] pray pessimistic. What a man who people say has lived the dream to creative for med...