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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. Cash Cow Capex Thesis vs. Liquidity Insurance Thesis Nick Nelson has it correct. In 2008 and 2009, credit virtually dried up.

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IMC CHOOSES AON TO EXCLUSIVELY ADMINSTER PROFESSIONAL LIAIBILITY INSURANCE TO ITS MEMBERS

IMC USA

PROFESSIONAL LIAIBILITY INSURANCE TO ITS MEMBERS. January 15, 2011) – Affinity Insurance Services, Inc. , a subsidiary of Aon , along with the Institute of Management Consultants (IMC), announced today that Aon will be the exclusive administrator of its Professional Liability insurance program to IMC’s members. HATBORO, Penn.

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How the Financial World Adapts to Climate Change

Tom Spencer

As the frequency of natural disasters increase, insurance companies are starting to include climate science and the projection of environmental hazards into actuarial assessments, thereby moving away from the traditional reliance on historical data. Though the insured firm risks losing more than the payout, the advantage is speed and ease.

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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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Great Depression 2020?

CaseInterview.com

For context, I asked this exact same question in October 2008 at the start of the Great Recession. In the case of the Great Depression, Black Monday 1987, and the Great Recession of 2008, the assets in question were stock market prices. The simple reason is: Deposit Insurance & The Federal Reserve Bank. Let me explain.

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It’s Not “Time Management.” It’s Lean.

Markovitz Consulting

Of course, software firm 37 Signals has been operating four-day work weeks over the summer since 2008. Cleveland Clinic, as well as the IT department at Nationwide Insurance, use a tiered huddle system to drive problem solving down to the lowest possible level and reduce the need for firefighting.

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Risk Exposure vs. “Good” Outcomes

CaseInterview.com

I spent a lot of time in risk-management-based businesses such as insurance, re-insurnace (the insurance companies used by insurance companies), and subprime lending. The latter happened in 2008 (the cause of the Great Recession and stock market crash). The layperson thinks 2008 was a “bad” year.