MishTalk

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Since 2008, Spanish debt has increased by €600 billion. For comparison purposes, the yield on 10-Year US notes is 2.25%. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Like Japan, Europe cannot stand higher interest rates.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Great leaders dream of a better future – from business sustainability to growing future leaders, increasing speed to market, or operating with greater purpose. Ideas are tagged and compared through comparison sorts. To turn those dreams into workplace realities, leaders set strategies. Refinement. References: Amrollahi, A., &

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Tom Spencer

MAY 8, 2016

This post provides you with a high level comparison of management consulting and investment banking. Risk management is a middle/front office role which assesses the market or credit risk assumed by the bank or its clients in a particular transaction. In comparison, investment banks are competitive and hierarchical.

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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. December 2008 (85). November 2008 (78). October 2008 (108). July 2008 (104).

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 5, 2016

For decades, experts and policy wonks have argued that health care is a uniquely inefficient industry, insulated from conventional market forces that operate in the rest of the economy. Poorly performing hospitals do not feel pressure from patients to improve quality because standard market forces do not apply to health care.

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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. December 2008 (85). November 2008 (78).

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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

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 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

DECEMBER 14, 2018

I explained this in an article that was published in Harvard Business Review in 2008, before any of those companies began, and, now, 10 years later, that still holds true, as more and more of the business discourse is focused on digital transformation.

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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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Harvard Business

APRIL 24, 2017

Yet they involve significant risks in selection, pricing, and integration, and markets often respond negatively to their announcements. In the period between 1991 and 2008, our sample yielded 75 firms classified as “most admired” (which we refer to as “high reputation”) at least once.

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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. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction.

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Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2017

The chart below shows the rate of change in the Digital Evolution Index over 2008-15 and how the UK performs in comparison to Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and the Nordic countries. When one factors in how the UK’s digital economy performs over time, its strengths become even more apparent. Only the U.S. did better.

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MishTalk

APRIL 12, 2015

The most drastic fall took place with the unfavorable factors that indicate the real distress in the credit market. It is suddenly very hard to get and this looks like the situation that existed at the start of the recession in 2008 [2007 actually]. Those are apples to apples comparisons, both seasonally adjusted.

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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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Management Consulted

MAY 10, 2015

In 1954, Hay continued its trailblazing ways, started the “Hay Compensation Survey Comparisons”, a tool that allowed companies to remain competitive in terms of the compensation they offered their staff, and continued to see sustained levels of growth. Hay for innovation and services to the HR profession. Practice Areas.

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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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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

No need to worry about supply side; a free market consisting of only young, healthy, rich people basically runs itself. Coca-cola and pepsi have dual distributions systems to deliver the same type of product to market, yes no one would argue that the government should take over soft drinks to eliminate that duplication. Joseph Greiner.

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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.

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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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freshminds

MAY 24, 2016

Airbnb Since its launch in San Francisco in 2008 between two friends renting their home out during a conference in the city, this online bed booking service offers over 250,000 rooms provided by private individuals in in over 30,000 cities in 192 countries. For example, are apartments rented on Airbnb subject to tax?

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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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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.

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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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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. It requires a broad knowledge and a high-level, big-picture understanding of the company and its markets. We were incredibly successful in gaining market share and mindset.

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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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