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Can we rely on LIBOR? - Tom Spencer consulting blog

Tom Spencer

Bremmer highlights the importance of LIBOR by explaining that it is “a key benchmark rate that affects the price of $350 trillion worth of securities and loans around the world.” ” Indeed, the British Banker’s Association notes that LIBOR “is the primary benchmark for short term interest rates globally.

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Australia's Mining Bust Turns Towns Into Ghost Towns; Expect Interest Rate "Shock and Awe"

MishTalk

Down the road, electronics retailer Colin Fountain speaks of the boom in the past tense. 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. It just got cut off.” I’ve definitely noticed a slowdown.

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2014 List of Strategy Consulting Firms in Sydney

Tom Spencer

Kearney’s services include strategy, innovation, sales & marketing, operations, strategic IT, and procurement. Additional areas of expertise include new financial services channels, technologies and markets, retail financial services, and e-business. The Birchman Group. Website: thebirchmangroup.com. Frost & Sullivan.

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Brews, News and Booz & Company: Interview and Culture Insights

Management Consulted

Today, Booz Allen Hamilton and Booz & Company still reign in the federal sector – they own the highest percentage of the market in the government sector. 2008 was when the split came, and Booz Allen Hamilton (parent company) divided in 2. Automotive. Consumer Products. Energy & Utilities. Financial Services. Industrials.

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Reality Check: How Fast is China Growing? Global Recession at Hand

MishTalk

Debt matters - $30 Trillion – up $9 trillion since 2008 Debt is 200-300% of GDP counting Shadow Banks. China''s total debt has sprouted from 153 percent of gross domestic product in 2008 to 282 percent today. Her presentation was about 28 minutes, less if you skip the first four introductory minutes or so. The rest is time well spent.

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Reflections on 2013; What's Important, What's Not? What's Ahead?

MishTalk

A similar crash in public opinion awaits Bernanke for fueling one of the biggest, if not the biggest stock and bond market bubbles in history. Trillion Yuan in Audit The Washington Post notes "Local debt now equals about 33 percent of China’s gross domestic product, up from about 10 percent in 2008 and almost nothing in 1997."