Something has got to be done to improve the return on our investment.

While this investment is substantial, it represents an important step toward ensuring our long-term competitiveness.

I think it would be a mistake to analyze this as a short-term investment. Our view is very long term.

We're already having concerns by major employers that their workforce is disappearing. The faster we can get investment back in there and recreate an economy, the sooner this will all come back.

The Ameriprise Financial Lifetime OptimizerSM quickly and accurately formulates a complete investment strategy that recommends where clients' existing assets should be held, saved, spent and invested over a period of time.

This is part of our ongoing work with the Army Corps, ... It's been reported that some of these cases may have prevented things like the modernization of levees. This is part of our normal work, to determine what has happened.