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Greece Brain Drain: 33 Percent of Unemployed Looking for Jobs Abroad vs 11 Percent in 2015

MishTalk

in May of 2008. Despite the falling rate, the percentage of those unemployed seeking jobs abroad has risen from 11% in 2015 to 33% this year. The Unemployment Rate in Greece is down to 21.7% in April from a record 27.9% in July of 2013 and a record low of 7.3%

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Full of Bull: Wall Street Analysts' S&P 500 Predicted Gains vs. Actual Gains 2001-2015

MishTalk

Mehta collected 186 public forecasts from 1998-2015 of the annual ritual of making market projections for the year ahead. I used years 2001-2015 in my analysis so the numbers are consistent line to line. Some may find his dispersion charts confusing. Data prior to 2001 was for the Dow.

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Canada in Recession, US Will Follow in 2015

MishTalk

US Will Follow I remain amused by all the pundits who think the US has "decoupled" from the global economy and will grow stronger in 2015. Here''s news: "It won''t", just as China did not decouple from the global economy in 2008-2009 (a widely-held thesis I also knocked at the time).

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What is digital currency?

Tom Spencer

Since the advent of Bitcoin in 2008, digital currency has been a growing trend and a growing area of interest for consultants, businesses, fintech investors, central banks, and governments. This also includes Bitcoin (created in 2008) and Ethereum (created in 2015). Reading Time: 6 minutes. What is the value of digital currency?

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Jim Whitehurst on the Open Organization: A Conversation with the CEO of Red Hat

BCG

Since joining Red Hat in January 2008, Whitehurst has helped grow annual company revenue from more than $500 million at the end of February 2008, to more than $2 billion for the company’s 2016 fiscal year.

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The age old tale of financial crises

Tom Spencer

The story of the 2008 financial crisis begins somewhere shortly after the death of Jesus Christ himself. The 2008 financial crisis saw Ben Bernanke, the then chairman of the Federal Reserve, providing money to banks across the United States following the collapse of the housing market and subsequent defaults of mortgage backed securities.

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Improving the Patient Experience: People, Process, Place Model

Tom Spencer

In 2015, hospitals either lost or gained 1.5% ASHE conducted a survey of facility managers in 2015, and found that roughly half were part of their respective hospital’s patient satisfaction committee. A total of 105 surveys were completed between April 24 and May 4, 2015, for a response rate of 10.5 References: Kenney, L.