What Does Exempt Mean, Anyway? Fund Forum Five years have passed since the imposition of new requirements for Exempt Reporting Advisers under the Dodd-Frank Act.
Forty years ago, gas shortage hit hard. Fred Norris remembers well the gas shortage of 1973. He was owner of Norris Brothers BP on Alamance Road in Burlington. It was a mess, Norris said, recalling peoples reactions to not being able to fill the tanks of their beloved Furys, Impalas, LTDs and other big rides.
Recent history is filled with stories of companies and sometimes even entire industries that have made grave strategic errors because of inaccurate industrywide demand forecasts. For example: In 1974, U.S. electric utilities made plans to double generating capacity by the mid-1980s based on forecasts of a 7% annual growth in demand.