Kent Conrad: “It is designed to jump-start the economy, create jobs, lay a foundation for long-term economic growth.”

I would just say our Retirement Security Plans and our Retirement Security Clearinghouses are responding to the underlying dynamic that Professor Mead has done such a good job in describing.

If we are going to make this whole system solvent, it is going to take everybody to give a little bit.

I wish I could look you in the eye and say, you know, if we just had the will, we could reverse this, and we could go back to a time when defined benefit plans were on the increase. I do not think that is in the cards.

I am eager to hear from our panelists to get a better sense of all the options they considered and how they reached consensus on the final report.