Google Image Search seems to be sure that "power tie" means a red tie. What does it mean to you? Well, apart from this?

DUDE. I managed to score the entire box of HP stuff, which included full sets of all 116 of the first series and 80 of the second series of the trading cards, and whose name is on the very second card in the entire stack? The Adorable One's. Hee!

And I just realized that I know how to deal with the rest of the stuff, but I have no idea what on earth to do with trading cards.

(I have the email address of the woman I bought it all from, and if any of it sells for any decent amount I'll split it with her; she would've let me walk away with all of it for free, but I felt bad because it's all obviously stuff collected and stored with care by her now-off-at-grad-school daughter, and I know too many people who are still aggrieved about their parents dumping all their precious belongings at garage sales for it to sit right for me to take advantage of yet another parent about to do the same.)

Urban dictionary says: [link]

principally red or blue tie with conservative patterning tied in a double windsor. The most common pattern is a simple stripe but anything conservative works. The style is easier to recognize than to describe. Often accompanied by an overly aggressive handshake, gaudy rolex, and ample cologne.

You are a good soul, JZ.

I think a power tie could be a simple stripe, but yeah, generally red.

You know lisah, I will.

I would say that it is a rep tie (striped).

Yellow tie with little blue diamonds. Probably very old-fashioned, but that's what I picture for a power tie.

-t, that was almost what I said. Very Gordon Gecko

That's about right for when I picked it up.

The red tie thing is from the Reagan era, right? Because Nancy liked red, so the reporters who wore red ties would get called on more at press conferences. Or so goes the lore as I heard it.