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How the Financial World Adapts to Climate Change

Tom Spencer

Knowing the ins and outs of upcoming trends in finance is indispensable for any aspiring consultant. A prime example for such a question is how finance is adapting to the issue of climate change, and might assist its mitigation. Green Finance. Resilience Bonds. Final thoughts.

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Is Behavioral Economics Used in Business?

Steve Shu Consulting

” Broad conscious, concerted efforts to apply behavioral economics probably did not begin until sometime after 2008 with the release of Thaler and Sunstein’s book, Nudge. Back in 2010, I was part of a team that started one of the early behavioral finance centers with one of the investment manufacturing firms in the United States.

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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. I slogged through most of it.

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Cybersecurity 101: How to defend against cyber-attacks

Tom Spencer

An example is a staff member getting an email that looks like it’s from the CEO which “could ask them to pay an invoice on their behalf or send them private staff details” ( CERT NZ, 2019 ). ‘Whale phishing’ attacks are also becoming more common. This is where the attackers target a prominent employee. Educate staff. Image: Pexels.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Only Hope For Italy is.

MishTalk

Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. For example, in Italy, the Monti government introduced a tax on real estate, and 85% of Italians are owners. And in Italy in the last thirty years, the credit market has served to finance the public debt. The last example in Europe led to Nazism. Newer Post.

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Liquidity Insurance

MishTalk

Nick Nelson, an equity strategist at UBS, said: “ Chief executives and chief financial officers have been battle-scarred by 2008-09, when they couldn’t get financing when they wanted it. In 2008 and 2009, credit virtually dried up. So they are running their businesses with much more available cash than in the past.

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Eight Choices for "Generation Wait"; Percentage of Young Adults Moving Hits 50-Year Low

MishTalk

Finance has an interesting chart that shows More Young Adults Stay Put. Here are a few examples. Structural Demographics Poor This is what I said in my May 2008 post Demographics of Jobless Claims. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction.

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