by Thomas Powell | Apr 20, 2018 | Economics
The public market used to be the only playground for big businesses with huge, ambitious goals. Founder’s like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey took their somewhat unlikely businesses to the public market as recently as 2012 and 2013,...
by Thomas Powell | Apr 17, 2018 | Economics
On this tax day, some states are feeling the pinch more than others. How does your state fare in terms of state income tax rates? Here’s a quick glance at the highs and lows. For a full list of all 50 states, visit here. And understandably, since 2009, the...
by Thomas Powell | Mar 6, 2018 | Economics, Oil & Gas
In January, I wrote an article called USA: Global Oil King? In this article I briefly discussed a turnaround in U.S. oil and gas over the past few years. Not so much a turnaround helping prices again reach $100 oil, but a turnaround in which the U.S. climbs the ranks...
by Thomas Powell | Feb 25, 2018 | Oil & Gas, Uncategorized
Earlier this month, Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt announced a date had been set for the largest oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history. This comes after we learned in January that President Trump would reverse a program that previously kept offshore...
by Thomas Powell | Feb 15, 2018 | Investing, Uncategorized
The Trump Administration’s major tax overhaul already showed slight impact in 2018’s first few rounds of pay stubs, as W2 employees noticed slightly less in their tax-withholding column and slightly more in their take-home pay column. This is one of the changes we can...
