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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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Consultant Ninja: There goes my bonus.: Management Consulting.

Consultant Ninja

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. What does it say that most fashion pictures of women have them posing with their mouth open? Management Consulting. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Consultant Ninja.

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El-Erian: "This Will Not Derail the Economy"; Contradictions and Friendly Disagreements; Six Points El-Erian Misses

MishTalk

Nor am I am a buyer that that's 2008. And 2008 was about the payments and settlement system. This is an old-fashioned repricing of two things." El-Erian Video Contradictions Link if video does not play: El-Erian: This Is Not 1998 or 2008 This may not derail the economy, unless of course the stock market is the economy.

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Lead to the future: leadership imperatives for success

Brimstone Consulting

In an environment that forces agility, such as the one we are in, organizational agility not only enables better management of crisis and uncertainty, but it also enables the organization to become more agile. We’ve built this into the regular cadence of our management process of the company. Create Alignment.

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Thoughts on PwC’s Booz Purchase

Tom Spencer

Mainardi, even more effusive, stated that the merger will “help reinvent management consulting for the next century.”. Back in 2001, Enron collapsed in spectacular fashion and Arthur Andersen , Enron’s auditor of 16 years, was implicated in the accounting scandal and ultimately went out of business. It ultimately went belly up.

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Terrorists Won the War on Terror; 74% of Pakistanis View US as Enemy, 60% Have No Confidence in Obama

MishTalk

Terrorists, by killing 3,000 people in a spectacular fashion, goaded the United States into compromising its values and betraying its citizens. Indeed, among the 15 nations surveyed in both 2008 and 2012 by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, Pakistan is the only country where ratings for Obama are no better than the ratings President George W.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business

Does a robot manage your money? 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. This would represent between 10% and 15% of total retail financial assets under management.