One could easily have mistaken a recent headline in The New York Times as captioning a story on bailing out companies sponsoring qualified retirement plans:

OBAMA PROMISES BID TO OVERHAUL RETIREMENT SPENDING

We had already seen government bailouts for the mortgage insurers (Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, and for some (e.g., AIG, Merrill Lynch), but not all (Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers), giant Wall Street financial institutions, and

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