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Start of a Global Currency Crisis?

MishTalk

In Emerging Market Contagion Spreads , I presented a viewpoint that emerging market currencies have been under pressure because of falling commodity prices. To be fair, quite a few emerging market currencies as well as the currencies of developed countries that are large commodity exporters have been under pressure for some time.

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

MishTalk

Minyanville Business and Market News. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. percent in June, the most since February 2008. Sporting goods, hobby, book & music 0.7 Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts. Featured Links. GoldMoney: The Best Way to Buy Gold & Silver.

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Nonfarm Payrolls +288,000, Unemployment Rate Drops to 6.3%; Household Survey Employment -73,000, Labor Force -806,000

MishTalk

Initial Reaction This month sported another amazing difference between the household survey and the payroll survey. Nonfarm employment remains just 113,000 below its January 2008 peak. Mike "Mish" Shedlock [link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management.

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Music for Motivation and Resilience

Harmonious Workplaces

Performance and Resilience Through Music Outside of high-school band, where we competed in marketing and concert competitions, and a brief stint in little league baseball as a child (Marquette Park T-Ball and Gage Park Little League), I have not participated much in group sports. Managing the Unexpected through Group Interaction.

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Too Much Team Harmony Can Kill Creativity

Harvard Business

” Indeed, not just in business but also in politics, sports, and the arts, there is no shortage of real-world examples of successful partnerships that were fueled as much by the alignment of ideas as by creative tension or discord. William Wrigley Jr., Being happy with the status quo is a sure way to escape creativity.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

We recently completed a study for the CEO of a very well known, global sports-apparel brand company. The pressure on large companies in today’s equity markets is enormous, with expectations they will continue to produce outsized returns as PE ratios climb daily. Learning from Big Companies. The Five Insights: Organizational Fitness.

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Is Your Firm Underperforming? Your CEO Might Be Golfing Too Much

Harvard Business

In a forthcoming article in Management Science , we empirically evaluate incentive compensation, firm performance, and evidence of CEOs “shirking” their duties. We measure the golfing habits of a subset of CEOs of S&P 1500 firms from 2008 to 2012. After all, many continue to play to golf after they retire.

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