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Powering New York City: A Visual Guide
When I walk around New York City, I can’t help but wonder how much energy it must take to keep the lights on in the whole city. Here is a great illustration great illustration that shows you how much energy (renewable and nonrenewable) it would take to power NYC. It...
Our Electric Grid is Transforming
About 10 years ago, coal generated about 50% of the country’s electricity. Now it is down to 34%! This is due in a large part to natural gas and renewable energy sources. Here is a great animated graphic that illustrates the transformation that has occurred over...
Important Changes to Social Security
Big changes to Social Security usually take years to plan, develop and roll out. But not this time. Congress has suddenly shut down two popular claiming strategies that have been growing in popularity over the last few years. File & suspend and restricted...
A 2016 Economic Outlook
Where are we headed next year? How will the US stock market do? China? Oil? Interest Rates? Over the next 60 days, my email will be flooded with hundreds of market outlooks for 2016. Some are pretty technical, or have some sort of sales angle, or they have some odd...
Millennials Are Buying Homes And This is What They Want
Courtesy of: Visual Capitalist
7 Ways Your Brain Makes You A Terrible Investor
With the recent roller-coaster-like activity we’ve seen in the market, I thought this article would be well worth sharing: 7 Ways Your Brain Makes You A Terrible Investor During these last few weeks and months, we’ve advised most clients to stick with their current...
Back to the Future
I have been around for a while now; decades. I remember when investing was done by stock picking. A stock’s value is mostly the current value of its future cash flow. A good stock picker analyzes the future prospects of the underlying company, buys its stock, and...
Exciting Changes at Ohanesian / Lecours
Our staff at Ohanesian / Lecours is growing. Leia Caponegro recently joined the firm as a Client Service Support specialist. She has a lot of responsibilities and clients will likely hear from her soon (if they haven’t already). Currently, she is assisting clients who...
Why the American Dream For Younger Generations Isn’t Dead
Investor’s Business Daily recently wrote an article entitled “Is The American Dream Dead for Millennials And GenX?” The article paints a bleak picture for younger generations and backs it up with some supporting research in an effort to make a convincing argument. The...
Social Security Discussion
CNBC posted an article online yesterday about how to collect social security. It’s over simplified and generalizes the issues and concepts. The interesting part was the number of comments the article received. Close to 600 comments over the last 36 hours! It was...
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