MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

After the first two shots of the War on Terror on September 11, 2001, the first major battle of the war occurred, and was lost, on October 26, 2001. Eric Tillberg, writer on Policy Mic says The War On Terror is Over, and the Terrorists Won. This was the day the PATRIOT Act was signed into law by President Bush.

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MishTalk

JULY 27, 2015

Nor were shorts the problem in 2000 and 2008 in the US. Indeed it was the shorts who understood the true nature of the stock market: Dotcom companies in 2000-2001 with no earnings were absurdly priced. were in the same situation in 2008. Shorts Not the Problem Shorts are not the problem here.

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MishTalk

JULY 10, 2013

financial stability were as misleading as the media frenzy over shark attacks in 2001. December 2008 (85). November 2008 (78). October 2008 (108). September 2008 (140). August 2008 (93). July 2008 (104). June 2008 (97). May 2008 (73). April 2008 (78). March 2008 (82).

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Harvard Business

JULY 17, 2018

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. When Jack Welch stepped down as CEO in 2001, GE’s defined benefit (DB) plan was sitting on a surplus of $14.6

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Consultant Ninja

MARCH 23, 2009

It wasnt until 2001 that he admitted that he made up most of the data in the book. 2010-Present: Off the road 2009 Stats: Airline Miles: 24,902 Nights away from home: 73 (of 216: 34% of nights) AMEX Charges: $21,220 2008 Stats: Airline miles: 87,589 Nights away from home: 159 (of 365: 43.6% Monday, March 23, 2009. Consulting. (88).

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 25, 2015

The Fed is borrowing a page from the script of its last normalization campaign – the incremental rate hikes of 2004-2006 that followed the extraordinary accommodation of 2001-2003. The crisis and recession of 2008-2009 was far worse than its predecessors, and the aftershocks were far more wrenching.

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2016

in 2001 to 16% in 2015. Notice how rapidly the thicket of bureaucracy grew back after being pruned in the wake of the 2008 recession. Between 1983 and 2014, the number of managers, supervisors and support staff in the U.S. workforce grew by 90%, while employment in other occupations grew by less than 40%.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 14, 2016

percent, since 2001. percent which is the largest drop since 2008. Falling petroleum prices, down a monthly 10.0 percent on the import side, are responsible for much of the deflationary pressure but not all of it as prices for non-fuel imports, down 0.3 percent in the month, are showing their weakest year-on-year pressure, at minus 3.4

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MishTalk

JANUARY 12, 2016

"Similar periods of weakness have occurred in only five other instances since 1985: (1) the majority of 1988, (2) the first half of 1991, (3) several weeks in early 1996, (4) late 2000 and early 2001, and (5) late 2008 and the majority of 2009 … all either overlapped with a recession, or preceded a recession by a few quarters."

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MishTalk

JULY 2, 2013

Barring some new developments — like all the gold in Fort Knox becoming irradiated — I do not expect to see a resumption of the 2001-11 uptrend. December 2008 (85). November 2008 (78). October 2008 (108). September 2008 (140). August 2008 (93). July 2008 (104). June 2008 (97).

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

In 2001 it was that the original iPod allowed you to carry “1,000 songs in your pocket.” ” In 2008 it was that the MacBook Air was “the world’s thinnest notebook.” Identify one thing you want your audience to remember. ” Apple still uses this strategy today.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. Each transformation – from a new computer distribution channel in Apple Stores and disrupting the music business with the iPod and iTunes in 2001; to the iPhone in 2007; to the App Store in 2008 – drove revenues and profits to new heights.

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MishTalk

MARCH 10, 2015

The last time the world was sliding into a US dollar shortage as rapidly as it is right now, was following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008. The "swapped" amount went from practically zero to a peak of $582 billion on December 10, 2008. More importantly, a dollar shortage certainly did not cause the crash in 2008.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

Back in 2001, Enron collapsed in spectacular fashion and Arthur Andersen , Enron’s auditor of 16 years, was implicated in the accounting scandal and ultimately went out of business. People sometimes mistakenly believe that PwC only provides accounting services, when in actual fact its audit business generates less than half its revenues.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 2, 2014

As they reported in a paper published in 2008 , rule-of-thumb methods were generally as good or even slightly better at predicting individual customer behavior than sophisticated models. What they found surprised them.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 17, 2020

There was 9/11 in 2001. There was the Great Recession in 2008. First, I have helped my CEO clients navigate multiple industry, capital market, and economic crises over the past 25 years. There was the dot-com boom and crash of 2000.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

UPS Freight , the fifth-largest LTL, reported tonnage off 10 percent (matching the record decline reported in the 2009 3Q during the depth of the Great Recession) and shipments down 5 percent year over year (the worst drop since 2008 fourth quarter). Overoptimism 2008-2010 The SEP growth forecast for 2008 never turned negative.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 27, 2014

And they should have realised after the 2008 Great Recession that the longer they suppress volatility, both economic and market, the greater the subsequent crash. He also fails to note the housing bubble is a direct result of the Fed not taking its medicine in 2000 and 2001. Will these morons ever learn?

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Management Consulted

MARCH 9, 2014

Four years later, in 2001, The Advisory Board Company went public (NASDAQ: ABCO). The firm also started growing rapidly through M&A, acquiring Crimson, an analytics, data, and business intelligence software provider focused on analytics related to physician performance, healthcare practice quality and cost management in 2008.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Pat Flynn — now a successful blogger and podcaster whom I profiled in Entrepreneurial You — was an employee at an architecture firm who was laid off during the Great Recession of 2008.

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MishTalk

MARCH 16, 2015

ZeroHedge wrote " The last time the world was sliding into a US dollar shortage as rapidly as it is right now, was following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008. More importantly, a dollar shortage certainly did not cause the crash in 2008. Excess debt and speculation caused the crisis in 2008. Same as 2008 or Opposite?

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Findings about the clear link between CEOs and organizational outcomes are unclear or mixed ( Cannella, Park & Lee, 2008 ; Hambrick, Humphrey & Gupta, 2015 ; Pitcher & Smith, 2001 ). Some were planned, but many were unplanned. Although the idealization of business leaders can often be misleading, it remains very popular.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2017

Since 2001 LVMH has studied its life cycle carbon footprint, focusing on both the obvious energy hogs — its stores and distribution — and brand-specific issues, such as packaging in spirits and personal care. Like many luxury brands, Krug was struggling after the 2008 financial crisis. Managing Carbon and Energy.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 21, 2016

Throughout his great career, Warren Buffett has made huge bets – for example, investing billions in Goldman Sachs during the financial meltdown of 2008. In 2001, then-CEO Carly Fiorina recommended to the board the acquisition of Compaq Computer. Here the experience of Hewlett-Packard (HP) offers a cautionary tale.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

After the dot-com crash of 2001 and the financial crisis of 2008, traditional investors who previously held their shares for the long term — public pension funds, institutional investors, and money managers — are now more interested in short-term gains.

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Seth Godin Blog

JULY 10, 2014

  2001—I spent ten hours a day, just about every day, researching and writing Survival is Not Enough.  2008—Launched Tribes , a significant shift in my writing focus. I also started writing columns for Fast Company , a monthly launch discipline that suited my need to invent and ship. We started Squidoo as a summer project.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

And questions regarding the 2001 recession and ECRI have still not been answered. US Recession The US won''t decouple, just as China did not decouple from the global economy in 2008-2009 (a widely-held thesis I also knocked at the time). They still deny it. This was my call.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. The differences were dramatic. We calculate that U.S.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Then came the September 11, 2001, attacks, followed by fully-fledged economic crises in the U.S. I was a speaker at 2008’s Fortune 500 CEO conference and listened with interest as BCG presented the findings of a study conducted in partnership with with the European Association for People Management.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The result was a dramatic shift at P&G from 90% centralized control of R&D in the 1990s to 90% decentralized control of R&D by 2008. The initiative decentralized R&D in an effort to make the big company “feel small” (e.g., This is not a surprise.

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Harvard Business

MAY 11, 2016

In 2008 Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson wrote about their research on U.S. Salvanes of the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration reported that the productivity gap between firms had risen in the UK between 1984 and 2001, and that this phenomenon was linked to income inequality.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2017

For my money, “What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions” (2001), which Garvin wrote with Michael Roberto, is the best piece on organizational decision making in HBR’s archive. The central idea is that decision making is a process, not an event. But the main contribution of “Is Yours a Learning Organization?”

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

The entry into force of the deal ensures that Barack Obama, elected president in 2008 on a wave of anti-war sentiment, will pass off both the Afghanistan war and his new war in Iraq and Syria to his successor. An article from January of 2014 highlights the "success" of US opium strategy: Afghan opium production on the rise despite U.S.

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MishTalk

JULY 16, 2013

Japan is on its 16th prime minister since its asset bubble burst around 1990 and not since, or long before, Junichiro Koizumi (2001-2006) has it had a truly audacious leader pledging to shake up the status quo. December 2008 (85). November 2008 (78). October 2008 (108). September 2008 (140). August 2008 (93).

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

In a cross-country study of private-sector forecasts from 1989 to 1998, Loungani (2001) finds that “ the record of failure to predict recessions is virtually unblemished. ” Explaining the persistent overoptimism Economic forecasting can be a humbling endeavor. A study by Alessi, et al. percentage points above actual growth.

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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

When China was admitted to the World Trade Organization in 2001, the Western hope was China would move toward a market-driven economy. Instead, particularly after the 2008 financial crisis, China has expanded central planning ; 100,000 SOEs have been the principal engine of that expansion. The growth of SOEs.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Her present rating is about as low as it was in March 2001, during her first few months in office as a U.S. I have always maintained that Hillary would have won the Democratic nomination in 2008 over Obama had she only had the common sense to admit she made a mistake in siding with President Bush on the War in Iraq.

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