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Hilarious Transcripts of Fed Minutes from 2008 Reveal Completely Clueless Fed

MishTalk

Here is a list of FOMC Transcripts and Other Historical Materials, 2008 Notes I purposely cherry picked statements of various Fed governors. Amazingly, Bernanke spoke of pent-up demand for housing in January of 2008 The January 29-30 transcript was a whopping 194 pages long. percentage point to GDP growth in 2008 and 0.3

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Inside a Fortune 500 Boardroom

CaseInterview.com

The conference room had an incredible view of Manhattan. I’ve never seen a conference room table so large before. In contrast, my favorite boardroom belonged to a clothing retail chain in California during the Great Recession of 2008. The company had suffered a 40% drop in sales. I will never forget it.

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Webinars: Your Best Promotional Tool

The Fearless Marketer

In December 2008 I gave a presentation to the ICF (International Coaches Federation) conference in Tampa Florida. Sales letters, online content, social media, emails, videos, and every other marketing method pales in comparison to the results I’ve gotten with live presentations. I’ve proven it in my business time and time again.

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The Art of the Elevator Pitch

Harvard Business

If there is no logline, more often than not, there is no sale. ” In 2008 it was that the MacBook Air was “the world’s thinnest notebook.” For example, I worked with top leaders at SanDisk, the flash memory company, to prepare them for a major financial analyst conference.

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Saxo Bank's Steen Jakobsen Warns of Global Economic Vacuum, China Slowdown, Germany Growth Negative, 30% S&P Correction

MishTalk

Steen is one of the speakers at Wine Country Conference II , May 1-2 in Sonoma, California. The US Consumer must have known the weather would be bad already last summer looking at this chart of Retails Sales: The US consumer remains 2/3 of the economy but he is still conservative: Spending rose 2.0% in 2013 after 2.2% in 2012 and 2011.

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Magazine Ad Revenues Plunge; Google Collects Half of Mobile

MishTalk

Initial industry monitoring of digital advertising revenue for some magazine iPad versions found that sales increased about 25% in the first half of 2013. A major drop-off in ad pages occurred from 2008 to 2009 (17%.) December 2008 (85). November 2008 (78). October 2008 (108). September 2008 (140).

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How to Identify and Accelerate the Right Leadership

Organizational Talent Consulting

In a controlled study involving leaders across different industries, researchers found a significant link between the leader's effectiveness and employee retention, sales, margin, labor costs, and net profit. Leaders attend a workshop or conference and return to the workplace with little to show for their time out of the office.