He favors investment in "some degree of legalization or state control," although he acknowledged major obstacles to any such experiment.

He urged Merkel to push for an "active growth policy" favoring investment and creating new jobs.

The United States needs a tax code that favors work, savings, investment, productivity, and creative entrepreneurs.

So more trade, but on fairer terms and favor investment in America.

"We need to make legal changes that will favor investment here," he said over dinner one recent evening.

Last year, a Harris Poll showed that 91 percent favored increased investment in medical research.

Participants, he says, are favoring investment at later stages in a company's growth.

Most who favor private investment by the trust fund don't kid themselves that the shift would increase the total size of the economic pie.

But many economists, including some who favor increased investment in education, see little cause for applause.

Legal challenges were raised by groups and individuals who favored investment in mass transit rather than highways.