finance term; profit on an investment
The previous brief discussed a revelation before the state Senate Committee on Agriculture, Energy, and the Environment that the Carbon Plan modeling has been unduly weighted to support the plan’s…
Executive Summary North Carolina’s Teachers’ and State Employees’ Retirement System (TSERS) is widely recognized as being among the nation’s healthiest pension plan systems, currently almost 90 percent funded at a…
North Carolina had the sixth-best funded pension for state employees and teachers in the country in 2017, according to the Pew Charitable Trusts. Past and present state leaders deserve credit…
December is a critical month for UPS and FedEx as the two giants go head to head delivering packages. And while home delivery is great for consumers, turns out that…
Julian Adorney explains at National Review Online how Social Security already plays a role in Millennials’ lives. It’s not a positive role. The average 29-year-old makes only $35,000 per year.…
Ali Meyer of the Washington Free Beacon details the potential impact of the Affordable Care Act on one major national health insurer. Blue Cross Blue Shield insurers operating in the…
Ridesharing may well be a disruptive technology, changing how people get around, but so far its not a profitable development. From Bloomberg via the Charlotte Observer: The ride-hailing giant Uber…
Uber helped usher in an era of competition challenging the taxicab monopoly. The latest issue of Bloomberg Businessweek documents the way in which competition continues to benefit Uber customers through…
Stanley Furniture will be closing its Robbinsville plant. Jobs will be destroyed. Stanley spokespeople argue the company could not make the plant turn sufficient profit fast enough to spare the…
Aviation Week has an article out on Latin American flying by US Airlines. The big picture: Flights to Latin America produced the highest operating margins of any region for U.S.…
Underfunded state pensions may face a bigger hit if new rules limit the ability to assume high rates of return. Pensions already face a $1 trillion hole, but the valuation…
A new study finds that rates of return on Social Security fall when politicians save the system from macroeconomic and demographic changes, as in 1983 and 1994. This “political risk”…