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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

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Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation?

MishTalk

John Hussman had a thought-provoking article this week on the The Minsky Bubble. Minsky noted that ‘euphoria’ might develop at this stage. “A follow-the-leader process develops as firms and households see that speculators are making a lot of money. December 2008 (85). November 2008 (78).

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business

Hoping to alleviate their concerns, this article also provides concrete examples of how sustainability benefits the bottom line. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. Since its launch in 2012, Flyknit has reduced 3.5

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BIS Slams the Fed; Ridiculous Question of the Day: "Is The Fed Going To Attempt A Controlled Collapse?"

MishTalk

Earlier today, reader Charles asked me what I thought about an article on ZeroHedge entitled " Is The Fed Going To Attempt A Controlled Collapse? " In addition, official statistics may underestimate intangible investment (spending on research and development, training, etc), which has been gaining importance in serviced-based economies.

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My Struggles with Suicide

CaseInterview.com

I started this article two years ago, but candidly, I was too scared to finish and publish it until now. In the video accompanying this article, I talk with Kim McKewon about my struggles with suicidal thoughts. My strongest and earliest memory of depression and suicidal thoughts occurred in the two years leading up to 2008.

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Every Fast-Growing Company Has to Combat Overload

Harvard Business

But by the 1990s it had run aground: It hadn’t properly developed systems to implement its growth strategy internally, and so that strategy broke down at dozens of points of execution on the front line—with customers, crew, staff on the shore and the company’s travel agent partners. Codify best practices.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business

It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index. To construct our Corporate Horizon Index, we identified five financial indicators, selected because they matched up with five hypotheses we had developed about the ways in which long- and short-term companies might differ. rate for other companies.