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Music for Motivation and Resilience

Harmonious Workplaces

In 2015, I started the first major breakthrough in my journey toward better health, DDP Yoga. Music played during physical exercise can influence short-term and long-term outcomes, with motivating music leading to increased exercise intensity and endurance (Priest & Karageorghis, 2008). I quit smoking in 2011. Glowinski, D.,

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Strong Economy – Strong Buy-Sell Market

Martinka Consulting

Second question: is there similar activity with larger companies, small, mid-sized, and lower middle market firms? 70% of medium sized companies will change hands (2008). Magazine – 65-75% of small companies in the US – some 10 million – likely hang up a “for sale” sign in the next 10 years (2015). Supplier’s company.

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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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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. For a couple years, when Barron’s data wasn’t easily available, Mehta used market prediction made in USA Today’s or similar surveys. Some of the firms are now extinct. Data prior to 2001 was for the Dow.

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Senator Inhofe Sponsors Ukraine Military Weapons Bill Based on Images of Russian Soldiers in Georgia in 2008

MishTalk

On January 15, 2015, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stated, “For several months we have seen the presence of Russian forces in eastern Ukraine, as well as a substantial increase in Russian heavy equipment such as tanks, artillery, and advanced air defense systems.” They show Russian troops in Georgia in 2008. Jim Inhofe (R.,

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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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Global Asset Management 2016: Doubling Down on Data

BCG

In 2015, the asset management industry recorded its worst performance since the 2008 financial crisis. Tepid markets and turbulence, which persist in 2016, are today’s reality. Report Monday, July 11, 2016. Fee pressure on managers continued to rise.