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Those are your assets, not the company's, and its creditors have no right to your money. One hopes the transfer to a new brokerage should go smoothly: federal regulators show up to oversee the process. In the worst-case (and highly unlikely) scenario that some of your assets are missing, SIPC insurance kicks in, covering $500,000 worth of securities, including $100,000 in cash...
...less than 17% of the total estimated fleet at that time. Given that the U.S. car fleet is likely to have grown to over 400 million vehicles by then, we may still end up using more oil in the future than we do today in a business as usual scenario. That's all the more reason for the government to get ahead of the curve and begin piecing together the electric infrastructure - smart meters, public charging points, more renewable power - that will speed the adoption of plug-ins. "A car affects the world more than anything else a buyer will...
...financial wizardry deserved AAA and AA designations even though it rested partly on a foundation of subprime mortgages. It was all justified by super-sophisticated models - way too sophisticated for "you" to understand - that looked back at real estate pricing and foreclosures and couldn't conjure a scenario in which the holders of the most senior parts of these tranches wouldn't get paid...
...neither China nor South Korea want to see a chaotic transition, in part because that might mean tens of thousands of refugees pouring across their borders, or, in the worst case, a civil war in the WMD-laden North that might require U.S. intervention - Beijing's absolute worst-case scenario...
Every major intelligence agency across the world does the exercise. Call it the "hit by a bus" scenario. If leader X of important/sensitive/unstable country Y drops dead tomorrow, what happens? Who takes over? How might that change things? For some countries, the exercise is simple. For others, it's murky and complicated. Then there's North Korea...