MishTalk

JULY 9, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. an hour wages, but only for retailers with corporate sales of $1 billion or more. Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts. Featured Links. GoldMoney: The Best Way to Buy Gold & Silver. Automatic Earth.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 17, 2013

Nearly 40% of car factories in North America now operate on work schedules that push production well past 80 hours a week, compared with 11% in 2008, said Ron Harbour, a senior partner with the Oliver Wyman Inc. factory recently cut 500 workers after sales of its new Passat sedan swooned. management consulting firm.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Smart Debt Engineering The markets are giddy today over a Plan to End Debt Standoff released yesterday by Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis. But the ECB is unwilling to approve the debt sale. Party on Dudes It''s all meaningless of course. Link if video does not play: Wayne''s World at the 2008 MTV Movie Awards.

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MishTalk

JULY 30, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. “Additionally, everybody we talk to in the industry thinks this is a bad idea that will be bad for the mortgage markets.” California passed Proposition 99 in 2008. Recent Posts.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

Some products are truly innovative but stay walled up too long in R&D and then are released to market when they are no longer unique. The product, owned by Germany’s Brandstatter Group, generated 90% of the firm’s $696 million in sales last year. The luxury SUV that set a record for pre-sales. Most definitely.

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MishTalk

MAY 28, 2015

Greece Target2 Imbalance Since February 2008 Greece Target2 Imbalance Detail Since June 2014 The chart shows a rise of €2 billion but that does not count cash. Target2 Explanation For a refresher course on Target2, please see Reader From Europe Asks "Can You Please Explain Target2?" billion as shown below. Isn’t the conclusion obvious?

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MishTalk

JANUARY 27, 2014

Today''s information technology allows a multinational company to position research, marketing, finance and managerial jobs to anywhere. Currency Crisis A second deflationary factor in Europe is the emerging market currency crisis. the Fed and others way overestimate the robustness of the jobs market. In the U.S.,

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Of course, there is also persistent overoptimism about earnings growth and stock market expectations. Sales of Class 8 heavy trucks are on pace for one of the best years in history - around 260,000 units in North America. Overoptimism 2008-2010 The SEP growth forecast for 2008 never turned negative.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 18, 2016

Diving Into Rumors Zero Hedge has an interesting post on Saturday entitled Dallas Fed Quietly Suspends Energy Mark-To-Market On Default Contagion Fears. In his post, ZeroHedge claims " The Dallas Fed met with the banks a week ago and effectively suspended mark-to-market on energy debts and as a result no impairments are being written down.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Average per-mile rates on the spot market fell again for all three major truckload segments in November, according to data from loadboard Truckstop.com. This is the fourth straight month that rates dipped in all three segments, continuing a now year-long downward trend spurred by both a major drop in diesel prices and market conditions.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

After being dropped from multiple courses during registration, I was in desperate need for a 4th class. I begged my favorite Econ teacher to let me into his Industrial Organization course and fortunately I got a spot. market for latex condoms. “My interest in consulting was a happy accident.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2018

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. Of course, traditional consultants and other providers of corporate advice are unlikely to disappear. will grow to U.S. $5

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Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2018

Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system. You need to have a [viable] option before you can change course.” Not until there’s an option.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

They invest significant resources in research, marketing, and distribution. What proves trickier is to yank lackluster offerings with sales that mildly disappoint — products that perform poorly but are not clear-cut cases for withdrawal. Firms might leave products on the market well past their prime.

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MishTalk

MAY 18, 2015

Mark Glennon at WirePoints explains S&P, slated to rate upcoming Chicago bond sale, goes comparatively easy on downgrade. Of course this led to shopping around to see who would give the debt the highest rating. After all, the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 laid bare the conflicts at the heart of the ratings game.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Economic Vacuum China’s flag is waving strongly these days, the direction of the economic- and political winds have changed but the present multitude of macro changes is yet to be recognized by consensus and the market. That the rally in USD-CNY happened almost to the day Obama hosted the Dalai Lama is of course a pure coincidence!

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MishTalk

MARCH 12, 2015

Debt matters - $30 Trillion – up $9 trillion since 2008 Debt is 200-300% of GDP counting Shadow Banks. Orange and lemon groves turn to useless, vacant housing Property 20% of GDP and tracking negative (sales and pricing). China''s total debt has sprouted from 153 percent of gross domestic product in 2008 to 282 percent today.

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Seth Godin Blog

JULY 10, 2014

Now, it''s so much easier to go straight to market that we need to find our own internal compass, something to replace the external one we all used to depend upon. Using the 80/20 rule as a guide, I realized that the top 30 titles probably accounted for more than 95% of their sales. We sold more than a million of them.

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MishTalk

JUNE 26, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. I bought with the intention of holding for a lengthy period, stating "I believe precious metal miners represent true value, but I cannot state when the market will come to the same conclusion.".

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MishTalk

APRIL 9, 2015

They offer them for sale to us. The answer, of course, is that Chinese productivity was growing at enormous rates. The first sentence in the Spiegel article reads " Back in 2008, the German solar manufacturing industry was riding the crest of a wave of growth fueled by generous subsidies and high demand. Here is a second irony.

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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.

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MishTalk

MARCH 27, 2015

Earnings Scorecard: Of the 16 companies that have reported earnings to date for Q1 2015, 14 have reported earnings above the mean estimate and 10 have reported sales above the mean estimate. At the earnings trough in third quarter of 2008, 58% of companies in the S&P 500 still managed to "beat the street". average for the index.

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2016

All of this, of course, comes on the heels of many overlapping crises afflicting Europe. ” Vodaphone is considering moving its headquarters out of the UK and its CEO Vittorio Colao had told the BBC that a Brexit would preclude it from a giant new single market. The digital talent market in the UK is already tight.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In 2008, as the CEO of a software company that had just missed its target for the second quarter in a row, I was so intent on hitting our fourth-quarter revenue number of $8 million — and so scared for my job — that I promised the company I would get a tattoo of the number somewhere on my body if we hit it. The result?

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2017

Critics across the political spectrum have said that fake news and cyberattacks played a big role in determining the course of events. Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. Bigger marketing budgets may not pay off.

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MishTalk

JULY 23, 2015

This idea is what Barack Obama had in mind in 2008 when he said he will redistribute money to the working class and poor. Of course, Illinois is not the only state dominated by high Democrat taxes and public sector spending but it serves as a good case study of what Democrats do when they have total control of budgets for decades.

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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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