stripped down

A stripped-down hypothetical can illustrate the point: Suppose a married couple has $100,000 in adjusted gross income, and now they want to switch $10,000 from a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA.

But in many ways, it’s something better, offering proof positive that Springsteen’s stripped-down version of “Nebraska” was the right artistic choice.

But perhaps a bigger factor was the release of Deep Seek’s stripped-down AI model in January, which raised the prospect of an AI future with far less power demand than investors had thought.

Earlier this month, the company began selling stripped-down, cheaper Model Y and Model 3 vehicles, which could help boost sales after federal tax credits for electric-vehicle buyers expired in September.

Anyone opening this set will want to start with the “Electric Nebraska” disc, which features a stripped-down incarnation of the E Street Band running through some of the album’s material in 1982.