MishTalk

OCTOBER 2, 2013

On Monday, Spain reported that its debt-to-GDP ratio would hit 100% in 2014. Spain''s public debt will soar to nearly 100 percent of output at the end of 2014, the government said Monday, despite massive spending cuts that have triggered angry street protests. The government plans to raise pensions by 0.25% in 2014.

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MishTalk

JULY 11, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Mish and Eric King discuss Gold, the Stock Market, the US Dollar, Sideline Cash, China, and US real estate. Automatic Earth.

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MishTalk

JULY 2, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. And EU has extended the timeline for Spain to hit that goal from 2012 to 2013 to 2014 to 2015 and now to 2016. Big Picture.

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MishTalk

MARCH 11, 2014

Finance reports U.S. percent, the sharpest fall since December 2008. Census Bureau announced today that January 2014 sales of merchant wholesalers, except manufacturers’ sales branches and offices, after adjustment for seasonal variations and trading-day differences but not for price changes, were $432.6 billion, down 1.9

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MishTalk

AUGUST 3, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Projections 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018. GoldMoney: The Best Way to Buy Gold & Silver. Daily Bell.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 5, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Last month the government pushed the start of the penalty from January 2014 to January 2015. December 2008 (85).

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MishTalk

JULY 10, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Following is a snip from the June 18-19, 2013 Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee , released today. Big Picture.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Some of this debt, incurred with the encouragement of world leaders to finance bailouts and stimulus programs, stems from the crisis. These countries want to avoid property-related debt crises like those of 2008. Government debt grew by $25 trillion between 2007 and mid-2014, with $19 trillion of that in advanced economies.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Of course, there is also persistent overoptimism about earnings growth and stock market expectations. In November 2007, the Federal Open Market Committee began releasing projections for real GDP growth four times per year in its Summary of Economic Projections (SEP). The actual growth rate for 2008 turned out to be –2.8%—the

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2018

A recent report by the consultancy BCG documented a general decline in sales among consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies in the United States during 2017, with mid-sized and large companies losing market share and small companies increasing theirs. Consultancy Catalina also revealed that 90 of the 100 top brands had all lost market share.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

After the financial crisis burst Spain’s construction bubble in 2008, “no doubt 2014 will be the first year when Spain will have some recovery,” the minister said. set for the full year, according to the latest data released Monday by the Ministry Finance and Public Administration.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Unless you are part of the tiny portion of humanity that dotes on every utterance of the Federal Open Market Committee, you probably missed an important statement regarding the arcane world of "excess reserves" buried deep in the minutes of its Oct. Unlike the Fed''s main policy tool, the federal-funds rate, the IOER is not market-determined.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 29, 2015

CPI - Urban Consumers - All Items - Percent Change From Year Ago As measured by consumer prices, inflation went negative from December 2008 until October 2009. Food An article on Yahoo Finance on January 16 caught my eye and I bookmarked it: Yes, you ARE paying more for food. I am not here to dispute that chart. a pound in 1970.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 27, 2014

Today''s information technology allows a multinational company to position research, marketing, finance and managerial jobs to anywhere. Currency Crisis A second deflationary factor in Europe is the emerging market currency crisis. the Fed and others way overestimate the robustness of the jobs market. In the U.S.,

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 4, 2015

One is on Japan, one the US, and one on emerging markets with various overlaps in between. The debts of non-financial firms in emerging market economies quadrupled, from $4tn (£2.6tn) in 2004 to well over $18tn in 2014, according to the IMF’s twice-yearly Global Financial Stability Report. Let's start with Japan. Obama's Model.

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MishTalk

JUNE 9, 2015

A continuing comparative analysis should provide a framework for a scorecard with respect to budgeting and financing practices. percent from an 8 percent assumption in 2008, its funding level dropped to 95 percent from 101 percent. Any change in this assumption has a substantial impact on the calculation of liabilities.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 5, 2015

On one hand, any observer with historical perspective knows not only that the overvaluation from this kind of speculation inevitably ends in tears, but also that the heavy issuance of new speculative and low-quality securities during the bubble finances and enables unproductive malinvestment that leaves the economy far worse off in the end.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 7, 2014

In 2008, Bridgespan redesigned its website in an attempt to provide better knowledge transfer. The Human Right Campaign 2014 Corporate Equality Index gave Bridgespan a 100-percent score for the best places to work for LGBT individuals. The Bridgestar.org site merged with Bridgespan.org in 2012. BRIDGESPAN ORGANIZATION .

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Average per-mile rates on the spot market fell again for all three major truckload segments in November, according to data from loadboard Truckstop.com. This is the fourth straight month that rates dipped in all three segments, continuing a now year-long downward trend spurred by both a major drop in diesel prices and market conditions.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Another source of public consternation has been the fact that 97% of the reserve fund is invested in Spanish public debt, up from 55% in 2008, as described by Expansión earlier this year. Other countries at risk of breaking EU finance rules included Finland, Luxembourg and Malta. It is the first time the Commission has done this.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Cash will be the most popular payment method for shoppers buying holiday gifts, with 39% of Americans saying they plan to use it for most of their holiday purchases, in a recent survey of 1,000 shoppers personal finance website Bankrate conducted with Princeton Survey Research Associates International.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Among the firms we identified as focused on the long term, average revenue and earnings growth were 47% and 36% higher, respectively, by 2014, and market capitalization grew faster as well. public market capitalization over this period. The differences were dramatic. Trillions of Dollars of Value Creation at Stake.

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MishTalk

MARCH 23, 2015

Greece Target2 Imbalance January 2014 to February 2015 Between October 2014 and February 2015, over 52 billion euros have fled Greek banks. Greece Target2 Imbalance Every February Since 2008 Charts created with data from Euro Crisis Monitor. Believe me, it will be enough ,” said Draghi. Confidence in the euro resumed.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 19, 2015

The fact that it would and should happen eventually was not lost on the market, but the SNB was, as late as last weekend, talking tough and telling the market that the floor was an integral part of Swiss monetary policy. By the way, the only guarantee I issued at the end of 2014 looking into 2015 was: [Mish note: Look close.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

The pressure on large companies in today’s equity markets is enormous, with expectations they will continue to produce outsized returns as PE ratios climb daily. The strategy worked until growth slowed in both developed and developing markets. Country and Market Units (P&L, and some infrastructure).

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 17, 2013

The latest proposals could see up to 126 people being consulted on how to wind up a bank, even though agreement might need to be reached over the course of a weekend while financial markets are closed. At the heart of the disagreement is what to do when so-called bank resolution funds, financed by the banking sector, run out of money.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

Cross-border flows of digitally transmitted data have grown manifold, accounting for more than one-third of the increase in global GDP in 2014, even as the free-flow of goods and services and cross-border capital have ebbed in the aftermath of the 2008 recession. Digital players wield outsize market power.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Bernanke again paraded his lack of insight of the Fed’s leading role in causing the 2008 crisis. I believe the Fed and BoE have learned practically nothing from their previous mistakes and we are heading down exactly the same road to catastrophe as the financial markets creak and groan under the strain of QE-inspired, excess valuations.

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Booz Allen Hamilton demonstrates a commitment to inclusion comparable to market leaders. It has been rated #1 in market share consulting because of its strong business in the UK and India. It was sold to PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2014. In 2008, it became the first global management consulting firm to reach carbon neutral status.

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MishTalk

JULY 3, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. percent of GDP in 2014. GoldMoney: The Best Way to Buy Gold & Silver. Abolish The Fed Sign the Petition. Big Picture.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Now, for BBC Two''s award-winning strand This World, Peston reveals what has actually happened inside China since the economic collapse in the west in 2008. Well in the autumn of 2008, after the collapse of Lehman, there was a sudden and dramatic shrinkage of world trade. Why do I say that? One of John''s kids has severe autism.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Second, Uber and Netflix appealed to a younger superconsumer before they entered the category, which caught the market leaders flat-footed. But total net inflows of money into all mutual funds and exchange traded funds is at its lowest levels since 2014. index funds). index funds).

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2017

cleantech innovation declined from 2014 to 2016, as measured by patents. as the most attractive market worldwide for renewable energy investment, this year downgraded it to third , behind China and India. That trend is more than five years old, but it’s particularly notable given two other developments.

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MishTalk

MAY 6, 2015

Finance for the inane headline of the day: Employers shrug off Obamacare, robbing Republicans of a campaign issue. Since the law fully took effect at the beginning of 2014, employers have created about 3.5 The Gallup job-creation index, meanwhile, recently hit the highest levels since 2008. Credit Yahoo!Finance

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. In 2008 Bill Gates testified before Congress to advocate for more H-1B visas to help compensate for “a deficit of Americans with computer science degrees.”

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MishTalk

JUNE 27, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Mish and Eric King discuss Gold, the Stock Market, the US Dollar, Sideline Cash, China, and US real estate. July 2008 (104).

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