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There's a $6.6 trillion gap between the pensions and retirement savings of U.S. households and what they should have to maintain their living standards in retirement -- and the gap is growing.

Sorry, Uncle Sam, but if forced to choose between U.S. Treasury and money center bank bonds, David Withrow, portfolio manager for the Fifth Third Strategic Bond Fund (

), would opt for the big banks. The $123 million fund, which gets three stars from Morningstar

, has returned more than 18% over the past year, better than 98% of its rivals.

Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda and other African countries may garner an increased focus for investors as their economies grow consistently at more than 7% a year, John Calverley, head of thematic research at Standard Chartered, told Bloomberg News.

A double-dip economic downturn would just be au jus to America's resilient, reinvented, recession-proof sandwich. Marketing company Packaged Facts set the Center for Culinary Development loose on the sandwich industry and found heaping portions of positivity layered between equal measures of tradition and emerging trends.