Iowa wind energy boom drives job growth amid tax credits
Inter state Power and Light seeks to recover a 468 million investment for Whispering Willow East wind farm in Iowa. Clipper Windpower and Acciona North America plants in Cedar Rapids and West Branch employ hundreds as turbine components roll out for Midwest projects and a 2013 tax credit extension supports continued demand.
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Aller
Iowa
Whispering Willow East
Interstate Power and Light
Iowa Utilities Board
Alliant Energy
Bend Tree
Freeborn County
Minn
Wisconsin Power and Light
Kelli Seeman
Cedar Rapids
Clipper Windpower
Seeman
Clipper
Bowling St
Interstate 80
West Branch
Acciona North America
Siemens Energy Generation
Fort Madison
TPI Composites
Fiberglas
New
Questioning Equity Indexed Annuity Comparisons And Fixed Income Alternatives
A reader criticizes using a single chart from American Equity Investment Life Insurance Co showing index-5 EIA returns from 1998 to 2009. The analysis argues the period is biased, the asset class limited, and EIAs underperform traditional fixed income funds over the decade, urging broader context in comparisons. The broader view shows GA GNMA and bond funds outperform EIAs, with 10-year and 2009 end-period yields highlighted.
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Lhare
Iowa
American Equity Investment Life Insurance Co
Des Moines
American Equity
EIA
Eias
C.A
Horseshoe Bay
Texas
U.S
Vanguard Gnma Fund
Fidelity Gnma
Vanguard
Federal Reserve
Sury
Firms cautious on hiring slow after robust end of 2009
The report notes strong December to February outlays for equipment and software, led by Cisco planning up to 3000 new jobs while many firms keep hiring very strict. Productivity gains limit payroll expansion, with nonfarm productivity rising 6.9 percent in Q4 and 7-plus percent in prior quarters.
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Cisco Systems Inc
San Jose
Calif
Carson
U.S
FedEx Corp
Alan Graf Jr
Business Roundtable
John Castellani
Obama
Castellani
United Technologies
Louis Chenevert
Little wariness wards off identity theft risk
Claudia Buck reports a Sacramento case where a consultant, Marika Rose, discovered small monthly charges from a shopping membership tied to online purchases. Over years the fees totaled more than 1100 dollars before she canceled her card and disputed the charges. The piece cites a 2009 12 percent rise in identity theft per Javelin Strat egies data.
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Claudia Buck McClatchy
Sacramento
Calif
Marika Rose
Rose
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Dallas
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Newton
Barack Obama
Midwest
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Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz & Associates
St. Paul
George.ford
Gazcomm.com
Scott Burns Universal Press Syndicate
Javelin Straters
Anegg & Research
Mark
Sillman
Marion
Monticello
Cascade
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OhnwardBank.com
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