When The Grid Fails
Why I Believe the Market Is About to Go Dark
I’ve spent my career working with employees and retirees of Southern Company and Georgia Power — people who know what it means to keep the lights on. You understand the importance of planning, redundancy, and protecting systems that millions rely on. That’s why I believe you’re uniquely positioned to understand what’s about to happen in the financial markets — and why we need to act now.
In the electric utility world, failure isn’t a surprise. It’s an eventuality you plan for. Transformers blow. Lines fall. Demand spikes. The grid gets overloaded. When that happens, you don’t stand around and hope. You reroute power. You deploy backup generators. You isolate the problem to prevent a cascading blackout.
Now ask yourself: “What happens when the economic grid fails?”
Right now, our financial system is behaving a lot like an overburdened grid on the hottest day of the year. Markets are overloaded — fueled by speculation, debt, artificial liquidity, and blind optimism. Stock valuations are stretched beyond reason. Just like cranking your HVAC during a heatwave without thinking about whether the transformer can handle it, investors today are pouring into overpriced assets with no thought to consequences.
And let’s be honest — the infrastructure behind these markets is rotting. Decades of easy money have papered over deep vulnerabilities: massive corporate debt, zombie companies kept alive by low rates, and an everything-bubble driven more by emotion than earnings. One bad spark — a geopolitical shock, a rate surprise, or a wave of corporate defaults — and the whole thing can cascade. Fast.
When the lights go out, it doesn’t happen slowly. And when the market corrects, it won’t give you a polite warning.
I’m not here to sell fear. I’m here to offer preparation.
Just like grid operators run contingency plans, investors should be building strategies for volatility. That means:
Reducing exposure to overvalued equities.
Increasing liquidity and flexibility.
Positioning in hard assets like gold or strategies designed to benefit from downturns.
Using portfolio designs that assume a failure — not just hope it doesn’t happen.
I’ve done this work with countless others at the power company— Southern Company retirees who remember Enron, who remember 2008, and who know the difference between a flicker and a blackout. They sleep better knowing they’re not blindly trusting the grid.
You’ve spent your career keeping the power flowing. Now it’s time to protect the power you’ve built in your retirement.
We are on the edge of a major correction — and when it hits, those with no plan will be left in the dark.
If you’re concerned — if this message hits home — let’s talk. I’ve structured my advisory firm to help people like you weather the coming storm and come out stronger on the other side.
Reach out to me today. Let’s make sure your retirement doesn’t go dark when the grid fails.