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Navigating a Downturn: Strategies for Business Resilience

Tom Spencer

In this article, we will explore six (6) tips for businesses to successfully navigate economic challenges. Businesses should adopt conservative financial management practices , such as effective cash flow monitoring, prudent budgeting, and building a large war chest of cash and other liquid assets.

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2008 Financial Crisis – Causes and historical context

Tom Spencer

Many an economics and finance course later, I see that the layers of complexities to the 2008 financial crisis are innumerable. I’ll try to summarize some of the causes and historical contexts in this article to provide a greater-than-Big-Short level analysis. We were shocked, how could no one have seen the collapse coming?

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Strong Economy – Strong Buy-Sell Market

Martinka Consulting

70% of medium sized companies will change hands (2008). Notice the same predictions from 2008-2015? We have a few articles in our “writing folder” (articles I’ve saved to write about) on bad management, how technology is replacing people, and employee unhappiness. Their average age of retirement is 67. And guess what?

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We Can’t Study Short-Termism Without the Right Metrics

Harvard Business

While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic.

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

Harvard Business

The constantly fluctuating number of barrels of crude available from nimble shale operations is a primary driver, but so are the long-term impact of increased fuel efficiency and the fits and starts of the global transition away from fossil fuels on world demand. .—while The soaring U.S.

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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. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. ” Improving risk management. Water-related risks threaten to strand billions of dollars for mining, oil, and gas companies.

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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? " This has been labelled the “second phase of global liquidity”, to differentiate it from the pre-crisis phase, which was largely centred on banks expanding their cross-border operations.