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Energy Reliability Is Only as Strong as Its Weakest Wire
This past January, Tennesseans received a chilling reminder of how electrical power actually works… and where it fails. Winter Storm Fern blanketed Middle Tennessee with heavy ice, tree branches buckled, power lines snapped, and a peak of 230,000 households were left without power in freezing temperatures. Statewide, 23 Tennesseans lost their lives due to the storm, and for many families, power didn’t return for nearly two weeks.
Energy Reliability Is Only as Strong as Its Weakest Wire
Adding more generation capacity without hardening the last-mile delivery network leaves the cake half-baked. This past January, Tennesseans received a chilling reminder of how electrical power actually works… and where it fails. Winter Storm Fern blanketed Middle Tennessee with heavy ice, tree branches buckled, power lines snapped, and a peak of 230,000 households were left without power in freezing temperatures.
Despite strong economy, investors should protect portfolios against inflation Original
Recent economic data has shown remarkable resilience to higher interest rates placed upon us by the Federal Reserve. Traditional economic theory would say the Fed rate is restrictive, but strong jobs reports and higher inflation says otherwise. These factors have crushed market expectations of interest rates dropping this spring. Some within the Fed have even hinted at further rate hikes being possible.
How President Biden's estate, gift tax changes might affect your estate planning
Estate taxation traces its roots back to ancient Egypt, through the Roman Empire and medieval Europe, and into the infancy of the United States. Modern estate tax began with The Revenue Act of 1916, imposing a 1% tax on estates above $50,000 and 10% above $5 million. Moving forward 91 years to 2017's Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, the exemption base amount (what is not taxed in an estate) doubled from $5 million to $10 million.
Investing in the age of big data: How to navigate expanding sea of information
Investors living in the digital age have a seemingly unlimited amount of information available at a moment's notice. With an abundance of information, it would seem investors have it easy when selecting stocks or planning for retirement, whereas our grandparents had to walk uphill both ways, in a blizzard, just to get to the library. It turns out that investing in today’s world is as challenging as it was 50 years ago — just in different ways.
Speculative trading in GameStop is instructive for new investors
Recent trading activity in GameStop and other heavily shorted companies has generated significant conversation around the morality of retail investors' actions to coordinate purchases of companies through online forums. Some see the events as a vindication for the “little trader” who was trampled during the great recession while big hedge funds were able to recover quickly. Others see it as irresponsible gambling that exposes investors to undue risk.
What Quibi's downfall can teach out about investing in new companies Original
Grant E. Stark As investors, we naturally gravitate toward stories and ideas that may generate superior returns on our hard-earned money. Particularly during the pandemic, individuals in search of outsized returns have crowded into technology names while fueling a frenzy of billion-dollar initial public offerings in businesses with no earnings. When psychological factors like “fear of missing out” mix with blind optimism, irrational exuberance is born.
Quibi's downfall shows why caution is needed when investing in new companies
Grant E. Stark As investors, we naturally gravitate toward stories and ideas that may generate superior returns on our hard-earned money. Particularly during the pandemic, individuals in search of outsized returns have crowded into technology names while fueling a frenzy of billion-dollar initial public offerings in businesses with no earnings. When psychological factors like “fear of missing out” mix with blind optimism, irrational exuberance is born.
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