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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. I didn’t quite get that.

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My Company is Better than Your Company

Martinka Consulting

I don’t think much of insurance agents but I have a great agent. In my 20 years in the buy-sell world I’ve never seen so many construction related businesses for sale as I’m seeing now. I sense a lot of owners are, remembering 2006-2008 and also looking at industry stats showing a strong couple years and then a big drop-off.

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EU officials Give Greece Three Days to Deliver Reforms or Face

MishTalk

Athens and the troika are at odds over an unpopular property tax and a sales tax for restaurants, while a shortfall of more than 1 billion euros has emerged at state-run health insurer EOPYY, meaning automatic spending cuts may have to be agreed to bring it back on an even keel. December 2008 (85). November 2008 (78).

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High-Powered Idiocy from Academic Wonderland; Three Reasons Banks Not Lending; Blinder is Blind

MishTalk

Not long ago—say, until Lehman Brothers failed in September 2008—banks held virtually no excess reserves because idle cash earned them nothing. So when it says that "most" members of its policy committee think a change "could be worth considering," that''s almost like saying they love the idea. But today they hold a whopping $2.5

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List: Global Strategy Firms 2013

Tom Spencer

Kearney’s services include strategy, innovation, sales & marketing, operations, strategic IT, and procurement. In 2008, Booz separated its operations from the U.S. SKP is a global management consulting firm focusing on strategy, marketing, pricing and sales. Booz & Company. Website: booz.com. Millward Brown.

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Consultant Ninja: A Simple Question about the Credit Markets.

Consultant Ninja

Isnt also true that providing funds to the sick banks also insures they dont go under? A lot of companies, including a lot of consulting companies, have professional indeminity insurance with the likes of AIG. I think what you say makes sense, but implementation of your idea requires quite an re-allocation of industry resources.

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How Companies Are Already Using AI

Harvard Business

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department. bribes and kickbacks).

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