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Navigating a Downturn: Strategies for Business Resilience

Tom Spencer

Adopt Conservative Financial Management Maintaining the financial health of a business is paramount if one hopes to thrive during periods of economic challenge. This has significantly reduced Apple’s financial risk of launching new products, even during periods of economic contraction.

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Mortgage Loan Originations Lowest Since November 2008, Down 60% Year-Over-Year, Cash Sales Strong

MishTalk

Here are some bullet points from the latest Black Knight Financial Services (formerly LPS Mortgage Monitor) release on 3/4/2014. 2008 (down 60% Y/Y) Property sales remained relatively strong (total year 2013 was up 8.4% 2008 (down 60% Y/Y) Property sales remained relatively strong (total year 2013 was up 8.4%

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Hilarious Transcripts of Fed Minutes from 2008 Reveal Completely Clueless Fed

MishTalk

Today the Fed released minutes of meetings at the start and during the great financial crisis. Here is a list of FOMC Transcripts and Other Historical Materials, 2008 Notes I purposely cherry picked statements of various Fed governors. percentage point to GDP growth in 2008 and 0.3 percentage point to GDP growth in 2008 and 0.3

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Retail Sales Rise in Germany and France, Decline in Italy

MishTalk

China Financial Markets. Financial Sense. Retail Sales Rise in Germany and France, Decline in Italy; Margin Squeeze in Germany and France. Italy: Sharpest drop in retail sales since April. In Italy, Markit reports Sharpest drop in retail sales since April. Germany: strongest sales growth for two-and-a-half years.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: European Car Sales.

MishTalk

China Financial Markets. Financial Sense. European Car Sales Plunge to 20-Year low. Amidst all the happy talk that Europe is on the verge of some sort of recovery, here is yet another counterpoint: European Car Sales Plunge to 20-Year Low. in June, bringing total sales for the first six months of the year to just 6.44

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Mortgage REITs Clobbered as Leverage Forces Sales

MishTalk

China Financial Markets. Financial Sense. Mortgage REITs Clobbered as Leverage Forces Sales. REITs Deepening Bond Losses as Leverage Forces Sales. Bloomberg reports REITs Deepening Bond Losses as Leverage Forces Sales. financial stability were as misleading as the media frenzy over shark attacks in 2001.

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Big Miss in Retail Sales vs. Expectations; Trend Change or Another

MishTalk

China Financial Markets. Financial Sense. Big Miss in Retail Sales vs. Expectations; Trend Change or Another "Soft Patch"? Retail sales were up 0.4% May retail sales were revised lower, to +0.5% Here are some retail sales comments from Bloomberg to help put things into perspective. Sales dropped 2.2

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