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Descent of the Global Monetary System

Tom Spencer

This is a problem because it forces households and businesses to divert energy away from productive activity and towards managing and avoiding the cost of inflation. Liquidity risk means that a business or individual may suffer reduced access to cash due to reduced sales revenue, unemployment, or reduced access to funding markets.

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Research Shows That Smaller M&A Deals Work Out Better

Harvard Business

Walter Thompson Company for $566 million in 1987 and Ogilvy for $864 million in 1989 — big acquisitions that stretched the company’s balance sheet. You meet the bar on this lever if you are among the top 20% in your industry in your ratio of capital spending to sales. Strength of productivity program.