MishTalk

JULY 23, 2013

The Pennsylvania Economy League projects Scranton could be looking at $18 million deficit, 117 percent tax hike in 2014. A new analysis by the Pennsylvania Economy League projects an $18 million deficit for 2014, an amount so massive it outpaces the approximate $17 million the struggling city collects annually in just property taxes.

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MishTalk

JULY 26, 2014

The Yen was in this general area, at times, in 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, and 2014. The CHART OF THE DAY shows the value of Japan’s exports is 23 percent below a March 2008 peak, even as those of South Korea, the U.S. This weakness is negative for an economy that suffered a blow to domestic demand from an April sales-tax increase.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

A controlled study involving leaders across different markets found a positive correlation between the leader's effectiveness and employee retention, sales, margin, labor costs, and net profit. Here are five more proven ways that effective leadership impacts individuals, teams, and organizations. Dhar, U., & & Mishra, P. Kouzes, J.,

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MishTalk

JULY 14, 2013

Clearly the pace of sales is very far below the business plan. Sometime before 2014, the Bad Bank will have to raise capital for accounting purposes. 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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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. Mish Food Shopping Experience From approximately 2000 until 2010 or perhaps 2011, the sale price of prime rib was $4.99 Now the sale price is $7.99 Not on sale?

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Sales Trends Analysis Finance 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2018

It also hurts the brands sold inside the stores, which in part explains why consumer product giants like Procter & Gamble are seeing their sales stagnate for products like Tide detergent, Gillette razors, Pampers diapers, and Crest toothpaste. Consultancy Catalina also revealed that 90 of the 100 top brands had all lost market share.

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MishTalk

MAY 28, 2015

Greece Target2 Imbalance Since February 2008 Greece Target2 Imbalance Detail Since June 2014 The chart shows a rise of €2 billion but that does not count cash. So a private sector with €72 billion final sales will have to service a debt load of €500 billion. The following two charts produced with data from EuroCrisis Monitor.

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Asamby Consulting

JUNE 2, 2022

Due to the ongoing efforts of governments to delay inflation and a recession since 2008, we are experiencing an overlap of one phase ending and a new phase beginning (see graphic 1). In addition, the positive effect of culture on […] sales were mediated by customer satisfaction.” Interesting, right?

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

The changes will during 2014 mean that: Germany growth will go negative quarter-over-quarter in Q4 (from Q3) World growth will come down from the recent 3.7% average expected growth for 2014. Strategy Fixed income: Still see new lows in 2014 – mainly in Q4- into Q1-2015. to less than 3.0% in 2013 after 2.2% in 2012 and 2011.

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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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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job. He tripled Microsoft’s sales to $78 billion and profits more than doubled from $9 billion to $22 billion. In 2014, Microsoft finally announced that Ballmer would retire, and in early 2014, Satya Nadella took charge. The result?

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

They exceed the peak levels in the crisis countries before 2008 in some cases, including such advanced economies as Australia, Canada, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands, as well as Malaysia, South Korea, and Thailand. These countries want to avoid property-related debt crises like those of 2008.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

I did a search for the term "browser war" and discovered this December 19, 2014 ZDNet article: Did the browser wars finally end in 2014? Google took over in 2008, introducing its Chrome browser, which caught up with Firefox by 2012. Google took over in 2008, introducing its Chrome browser, which caught up with Firefox by 2012.

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MishTalk

MARCH 31, 2015

This is now showing up in numerous Canadian coincident data releases, with retail sales being the latest to miss expectations last Friday. Canada December Retail Sales On February 20, the Huffington Post reported Canadian Retail Sales Post Biggest Drop Since April, 2010. Statistics Canada said Friday retail sales fell 2.0

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

The product, owned by Germany’s Brandstatter Group, generated 90% of the firm’s $696 million in sales last year. The luxury SUV that set a record for pre-sales. At the time, gasoline prices were soaring and sales of large SUVs had declined. One is a sales force that is easily meeting its targets with the product.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 10, 2015

percent from 2014 levels. Inventories to Sales Economists missed the wholesale trade report numbers by a mile. Inventories to Sales The inventory-to-sales ratio is clearly in the danger zone. percent but sales are down 3.7 Sales are up 2.3 Sales are up 2.3 Here is a subset of one of their tables.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

In 2008 Bonabeau and two members of the Eli Lilly R&D leadership published an HBR article in which they reported that the new approach had been able to deliver molecules to Phase II trials “at almost twice the speed and less than a third of the cost of the standard process.”

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Not long ago—say, until Lehman Brothers failed in September 2008—banks held virtually no excess reserves because idle cash earned them nothing. This will be a major source of angst and uncertainty in 2014. That''s news because they haven''t loved it before. But today they hold a whopping $2.5

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Banking Small Business Insurance Insurance 67

MishTalk

JANUARY 27, 2014

Although the ECB Watered Down 2014 Stress Tests Second Time , some banks are still likely to have capital shortfalls. Retail Sales Cost-Cutting, Competition, and Cannibalization Numerous retailers are cutting employees. residential sales in December, up from 38.1 For details, please see Start of a Global Currency Crisis?

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Banking Retail Healthcare Sales 78

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

To start, consider the figure below, “Performance since 2008,” a quarter-by-quarter time-series plot of results on a variable of interest (for example, it could be sales of a particular item, estimated resources to complete a certain project, etc). There were several huge snowstorms last year, so 2014 was an anomaly.”

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2018

In sales-driven companies (think pharmaceuticals and industrial equipment), they are often field sales managers who direct dozens of salespeople in the highest-volume regions. The jobs are in sales, customer contact centers, and field service positions. Or they may be people who interact with customers after the sale.

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Management Consulted

MAY 10, 2015

In 2005, the Hay Group was asked to provide the research for Chief Executive Magazine’s “Best Companies for Leaders” In 2008, “Senior Leadership Teams” an article written by Hay Group staff members was published by Harvard Business School Press. Enterprise sales effectiveness. HAY GROUP ORGANIZATION. Talent management.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 18, 2016

On September 30, 2008, the SEC and the FASB issued a joint clarification regarding the implementation of fair value accounting in cases where a market is disorderly or inactive. Section 132 of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, which passed on October 3, 2008, restated the SEC's authority to suspend the application of FAS 157.

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MishTalk

MARCH 1, 2015

One real estate agent said “a hell of a lot” of property was on the market – about 400 houses were for rent or sale and buyers were scarce. The Australian dollar fell sharply on the announcement of a cut, dropping to a fresh 5½-year low, while the stock market surged to the highest level since May 2008.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

By the end of 2014, they had improved fuel efficiency approximately 87% compared to the 2005 baseline. Moreover, some studies show that overall sales revenue can increase up to 20% due to corporate responsibility practices. GE’s Ecomagination division, for example, has generated $200 billion in sales since 2005.

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MishTalk

MARCH 12, 2015

Debt matters - $30 Trillion – up $9 trillion since 2008 Debt is 200-300% of GDP counting Shadow Banks. Orange and lemon groves turn to useless, vacant housing Property 20% of GDP and tracking negative (sales and pricing). China''s total debt has sprouted from 153 percent of gross domestic product in 2008 to 282 percent today.

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MishTalk

APRIL 12, 2015

The category of sales slid to 57.9 It is suddenly very hard to get and this looks like the situation that existed at the start of the recession in 2008 [2007 actually]. The overall economy didn’t look all that bad in late 2008, except that there was a dearth of credit and that soon led to business failures and struggles.

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Seth Godin Blog

JULY 10, 2014

Using the 80/20 rule as a guide, I realized that the top 30 titles probably accounted for more than 95% of their sales. 2008—Launched Tribes , a significant shift in my writing focus. 2014—My Skillshare courses on Entrepreneurship and Marketing both launched and became Skillshare''s most successful. I''m glad Mark filmed it.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

This was 2014. We have a set of consultants who work with us off and on since 2009 or 2008, that we would pull in when we’ve all of a sudden sold too much work. If we’re not at the epicenter of the sale and where the change needs to take place, it’s unlikely it’s going to happen. How do you do that?

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MishTalk

MARCH 27, 2015

That’s above the 81% that warned Q1 2014, and the five-year average of 68%. Earnings Scorecard: Of the 16 companies that have reported earnings to date for Q1 2015, 14 have reported earnings above the mean estimate and 10 have reported sales above the mean estimate. Even in 2008 and 2009 the majority of firms beat estimates.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Prior to this, only 2007-2008 saw this many annual deals, and before that the single-year peak of 2000 saw “just” over 40,000 deals. Intel’s $15 billion acquisition this year of MobileEye was not only the largest sale of an Israeli startup , but also a signal that the heart of tech is going on the road.

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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 commerce must still contend with cash.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The age of streaming music has arrived in full force, displacing both physical sales (e.g., album sales, both physical and digital, have plummeted from a peak of 785 million in 2000 to just 241 million in 2015. Just one week later, Drake broke that record when his album Views was streamed 245 million times.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

Country P&Ls would be replaced with simpler, sales-oriented measures. The skillfully tuned “balanced matrix” that he led, a blend of powerful market-development units in the field and global category/brand and support organizations in the center, delivered superior results well into the great recession of 2008.

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freshminds

MAY 24, 2016

Airbnb Since its launch in San Francisco in 2008 between two friends renting their home out during a conference in the city, this online bed booking service offers over 250,000 rooms provided by private individuals in in over 30,000 cities in 192 countries. In 2014, nearly 8 million adults or 14.5% And what is the future?

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MishTalk

JANUARY 31, 2015

Final sales of domestic product slowed to 1.8 Final sales to domestic purchasers eased to 2.8 Diving Into the GDP Report With that backdrop, lets dive into the BEA Fourth Quarter and Annual 2014 Advance GDP Estimate. Bloomberg reported " The advance estimate for fourth quarter GDP growth disappointed with a 2.6 percent from 4.1

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MishTalk

JULY 23, 2015

This idea is what Barack Obama had in mind in 2008 when he said he will redistribute money to the working class and poor. The operating expenses are paid by additional taxes on things from packs of cigarettes, to gasoline, sales tax , and cable TV bills. In 2014 Chicago only gained 82 people in population.

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