Carbon Credits are one tool governments and agencies use to encourage less carbon emissions and they provide a double incentive for individuals and companies to decrease their carbon footprint.
This blog gives a quick and informative overview of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and how it works.
In this blog, we will explore pensions and an example client looking at their different options and retirement scenarios.
Congress made major changes to rules regarding retirement plan contributions and distributions.
IRA distributions that are made payable to a 501c(3) charity are not taxable as income the IRA owner.
On October 31st 2008 Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper.
Proof of Work and Proof of stake are the two main methods of validating transactions in cryptocurrency. This discussion explores the origins and major differences of those two approaches.
The Effects of Interest Rates on the US federal budget As of 9.29.2022 the following figures existed for the US federal government. National Debt $30.921 Trillion Annual Tax Revenue $4.9 Trillion Annual Expenditures $ 5.9 Trillion Annual Deficit $1.0 Trillion That deficit is funded by issuing more debt thus increasing the total National debt by about $1.0 Trillion per year. The federal expenditures can be broken down as follows: Medicare $1.471 Trillion Social Security $1.141...
Using the ABR index comparison tool we were able to compare the average return, standard deviation, sharpe, and max drawdown for different types of portfolios. We used a core portfolio which contained a different percentage makeup of bonds and equities and also volatility which is made up of both long and short volatility. With this post, we specifically look into two of the data points where the short and long term volatility levels are equal...
Bitcoin has become very popular over the past decade as a method to exchange money, but also to benefit from the volatility of the coin’s price. In recent years the Lightning Network was created as a more efficient way for users to exchange money on a smaller scale with anyone in the world in a matter of seconds. In order for the network to become more useful in the future, it would be vital for...
What are the differences between a royalty company and an operating (driller or miner) company? Royalty and streaming companies essentially loan large amounts of money to the operating company who does the physical drilling and mining of the precious metal in return for a portion of future production or revenue. Typically there are three different types of royalties these companies use which include: Net Smelter Royalty, Streaming Royalty, and Net profits Royalty. A Net Smelter...
To help plan for the costs and potential benefits of education, we used four different plans which include a no college plan, an in-state public college plan, an out-of-state public college plan, and a private school college plan. The goal was to summarize the estimated total costs per year, estimated total earnings until retirement, and the cumulative savings when invested to then compare each of these final numbers and evaluate the best possible plan for...
