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.
The Great Depression was the worst economic crisis in U.S. history. From 1931 to 1940 unemployment was always in double digits. In April 1939, almost ten years after the crisis began, more than one in five Americans still could not find work. On the surface, World War II seems to mark the end of the Great Depression.