MishTalk

JULY 8, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. By this comparison only 2012 looks anything close to a normal recovery year. Wallace charts show non-adjusted numbers vs. the same month in prior years, and that is a valid statistical comparison.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Those in sales and marketing you should focus on the 55+ age group. As usual, all data not adjusted for seasonality, just direct comparisons of actual data year on year. The charts show something I have repeatedly said since 2008: "kids will be competing with their parents and grandparents for jobs that do not pay a living wage.".

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MishTalk

JULY 23, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. In comparison, 51% on average in the European Union (EU) believes that the main challenge for the country is 72% unemployment and the economic situation is bad. Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts.

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MishTalk

JUNE 24, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. This as an apples to apples comparison illustrates that FHA rates have increased 1.75% in 7 weeks. Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts. Featured Links. GoldMoney: The Best Way to Buy Gold & Silver.

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MishTalk

JULY 28, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. They are 15 percent lower than Belgian and French wages and 30 percent lower than wages in Germany, according to a current Bank of Italy comparison. Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts. Featured Links.

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Management Consulted

MAY 10, 2015

Hay and Associates, Management Consultants.” The firm was started on the premise that maximizing companies’ people management skills would vastly improve their output, both in terms of quality and quantity. Dale Purves died in 1966, and Milton Rock became the new Managing Director. Hay Group Engagement Cost: $250K.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 24, 2017

Yet they involve significant risks in selection, pricing, and integration, and markets often respond negatively to their announcements. We examined this issue and published our findings in a recent paper in the Strategic Management Journal. At some level, it appears that markets hold high expectations for these firms to grow.

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MishTalk

APRIL 12, 2015

His article was based on data from the March Credit Managers'' Index by the National Association of Credit Management. The most drastic fall took place with the unfavorable factors that indicate the real distress in the credit market. Those are apples to apples comparisons, both seasonally adjusted. It is sitting at 51.2

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

market for latex condoms. Recently, Mayer Laboratories sued Church and Dwight, Trojan’s parent company, for illegally monopolizing the market. Then, one day, I fortunately came across the Management Consulted website. ” I started dating the Management Consulted website and began loving it. It was like “Oh!!

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MishTalk

AUGUST 9, 2015

In addition to bubble-busting events in real estate and the Chinese stock market, China now has to deal a plunge in exports. Imports also fell heavily from a year earlier, in line with market forecasts but suggesting domestic demand might be too feeble to offset the weaker global demand for China's exports. Chinese exports tumbled 8.3

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 18, 2014

“When push comes to shove they’re going to look and say: ‘It’s a pretty weak world economy out there, we don’t see any inflation, and the risk if we raise rates and it turns out we were mistaken is just so huge’,” the 2008 Nobel laureate said in Dubai. Every day the financial press, many of the blogs, cable financial news, etc.,

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2016

On August 1 Uber announced that it is selling its Chinese brand and operations to Didi Chuxing for $1 billion, its annual burn rate in that market, in exchange for a 20% stake in the local competitor. A cautionary tale from the past: After acquiring EachNet.com, eBay controlled 80% of the Chinese e-commerce market in 2003.

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Consultant Ninja

JULY 27, 2009

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. No need to worry about supply side; a free market consisting of only young, healthy, rich people basically runs itself. Not sure about the Pepsi/Coke comparison.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2018

While this “lab-bench to bedside” approach has improved healthcare globally, it can take years, even decades, for an innovation to get to market, often with limited input from patients themselves. Scoping projects for success and managing ambition: Interdisciplinary design teams are, by nature, optimistic and ambitious.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

50% is not a very good recession predicting track record except in comparison to consensus economic opinions that have never once in history predicted a recession. US Recession The US won''t decouple, just as China did not decouple from the global economy in 2008-2009 (a widely-held thesis I also knocked at the time). This was my call.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 15, 2015

That paragraph stood out because Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets has made similar statements about interest rates in China. The comparison to Japan is hollow, North Americans have become drunk on excess and will keep spending until the repo vans appear in the driveway. Mish Reply Comparisons to Japan are not stupid at all.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

percentage points, from 65 percent in January 2008 to 59.4 This percentage, called the employment ratio, has been described by economist Paul Ashworth as the “best measure of labor market conditions.” The Great Recession hit the jobs market in January 2008. percent in December 2013.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

In The Morning After; Price Discovery is Zero; PUT on the Bond Market? Doug Short has a comparison using different deflators, including the Alternate-CP I from John Williams'' Shadowstats. While Bernanke can talk of "recovery" things started deteriorating badly, not in 2008 but all the way back in 2000. since 2000.

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MishTalk

JULY 14, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets tackles the above questions via email on " The Urbanization Fallacy ". Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts. Featured Links. Automatic Earth. Big Picture.

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MishTalk

APRIL 6, 2015

55 and Over Population Minus Employment Year-Over-Year For age group 55 and over, the growth in population far exceeds growth in employment for every year-over-year comparison. Since March 2008, the age 65+ demographic rose by 9,166,000. Since March 2008, the 60+ demographic rose by 13,306,000.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

In this episode, we are discussing the importance of maintaining a long-term strategy and vision for your marketing and networking. Listen to the podcast here: Long-term strategies in marketing and networking offer the greatest rewards for the most successful consultants. I’m delighted to have her join me today. Good to be here.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 5, 2013

For comparison, Spain’s pension outlays are slightly over €100bn a year or roughly 10% of GDP, so the pension [reserve] fund even at its peak was only enough to cover about 9 months’ worth of pensions. Mike "Mish" Shedlock [link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 15, 2014

My Thoughts: During periods of market excess, avoiding bubbles and instead investing in out of favor but attractive assets can be quite painful to live through in the short-term. Readers will recognize those points as part of my Fed Uncertainty Principle , written April 3, 2008, before the big collapse. Only a free market does.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Enormous improvement in the assessment of the current labor market drove the consumer confidence index well beyond expectations, to 101.5 At that point, the index peaked at +5 -- the highest weekly score Gallup has recorded since it began tracking economic confidence daily in 2008. in August for a more than 10 point surge from July.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Female board representation at the S&P 500 has not increased significantly over the past decade and, at 18.7%, pales in comparison to the figures in most of Europe. Back in 2008, when Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt wanted to put in place quotas like those in Norway, she met strong resistance from both men and women.

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MishTalk

JULY 29, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Shifting Sands of Muni Bond Market; Three Bad Assumptions. Kotok bases his arguments on a comparison on General Obligation Yields to US Treasuries. This is an idiosyncratic market of $3.8

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

For comparison, they hold around 0.6%–0.7% On the other side of the debate, H-1B supporters argue that the program brings needed skills into the labor market, which helps firms remain innovative, productive, and competitive. jobs overall.) A literature review by Yi Xue and Richard C. biomedical sciences, physical sciences).

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MishTalk

JANUARY 3, 2014

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."

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