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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. And then when new applications of behavioral economics started, they seemed to be mostly applied in the government space.

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Damn the Bubbles, More Printing Ahead; Property Bubbles and the Perils of Easy Money

MishTalk

Finance reports Yellen strongly defends easy Fed policies, cites U.S. trillion shadow-banking system, trust financing has been key to fueling the nation’s 10 percent annual growth rate in the past decade by providing easy credit to companies considered too risky by banks. Part of China’s $7.5 trillion yuan ($1.8 trillion yuan ($1.8

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World Collapse Explained in 3 Minutes

Tom Spencer

Countries whose finances are in such a state of disarray that they were not only unable be repay their original debts but will almost certainly be unable to repay the subsequent bail out money. QE is a remedy of last resort which aims to create price inflation and thereby reduce the real value of government debt.

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Consulting or Banking

Tom Spencer

This post provides you with a high level comparison of management consulting and investment banking. Management consultants assist organisations by providing advice to address specific problems and to improve organisational performance. Nature of the job.

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Ukraine Needs Second Bailout, Currency Reserves Drop to Critical Level; Another IMF Visit; Where's the Love?

MishTalk

See Enter the Carpetbaggers: Ukraine''s New Finance Minister a US Citizen, New Economy Minister from Lithuania ). Ukraine’s central bank reported foreign-currency reserves at their lowest for almost a decade, raising pressure on the West to provide more financing to the country being squeezed by Russia. Failing to add. for a month].

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Cybersecurity 101: How to defend against cyber-attacks

Tom Spencer

Cybersecurity is important partly because of the huge costs that cyber-attacks can impose on governments, businesses, and consumers. WannaCry, the ransom-ware, targeted computers running on Windows XP and Windows 7, an outdated operating system which Windows no longer supported in terms of security updates ( Trendall, 2008 ).

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