MishTalk

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

The Guardian reports 41 Men Targeted but 1,147 People Killed in US Drone Strikes. Seventy-six children and 29 adults, according to reports after the two strikes, are not. Drones first came for Hussain years before, on 29 January 2008. The US calls it a war on terror. In reality it''s a war of terror.

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MishTalk

JULY 15, 2013

Labor Union Report. Lets start this start this story with a flashback snip from my February 4 report Ledger Book Shows Rajoy Received 35 Payments Totaling €322,231; Rajoys Incredulous Denial; Anger Rises. Today the Financial Times reports Rajoy dismisses calls to step down as PP loses support. Gold's Honest Discipline.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 9, 2014

The Advisory Board Company is perhaps best known for its membership platform which provides information, research and tools specifically targeted to companies pursuing operational and strategic organization improvement in the U.S. The Advisory Board Company also offers technology, management, and consulting services.

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MishTalk

JULY 27, 2013

Labor Union Report. Time reports Robots to Revolutionize Farming and Ease Labor Woes. Natural News reports Farm robots to make human ag workers obsolete within a decade. economy," says a report by the Bread for the World Institute. December 2008 (85). November 2008 (78). October 2008 (108).

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MishTalk

JULY 14, 2013

Labor Union Report. Here are some excerpts (translated) from GurusBlog report Havoc in the Bad Bank (SAREB). Until June 1, Sareb had managed to sell 700 properties (550 in the first 3 months). With estimated operating costs of 1.7 With estimated operating costs of 1.7 December 2008 (85). November 2008 (78).

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Banking Analysis Trends Real Estate 76

MishTalk

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Last Week the Huffington Post reported Ebola.com Sells For More Than $200,000 -- Including 19,000 Shares Of Cannabis Sativa Stock. Chris Hood and Jon Schultz paid $13,500 for the rights to Ebola.com back in 2008 and have just sold it to a company called Weed Growth Fund. Ebola Cases Turning Point Admittedly the disease is very scary.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 26, 2015

Thus, it cannot be much of a surprise to learn Amazon Starting its Own Air Cargo Operation. Cargo Facts reported today [December 18] that Amazon is building its own cargo operation and is in talks with Boeing to acquire up to 20 767-freighter jets to help deliver packages to customers around the U.S.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 6, 2013

Labor Union Report. Quantitative Easing 1 (QE1, December 2008 to March 2010). "On On November 25, 2008, the Federal Reserve announced that it would purchase up to $600 billion in agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and agency debt. Operation Twist (2011). EDT by announcing the implementation of Operation Twist.

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MishTalk

JULY 4, 2013

Labor Union Report. It did not take too long to discover that France operates its own "Big Brother" network gathering systems after demanding explanations from the US. The Financial Times reports Veil lifted on France’s ‘Big Brother’ Network. December 2008 (85). November 2008 (78). June 2008 (97).

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MishTalk

AUGUST 17, 2013

Nearly 40% of car factories in North America now operate on work schedules that push production well past 80 hours a week, compared with 11% in 2008, said Ron Harbour, a senior partner with the Oliver Wyman Inc. management consulting firm. The Wall Street Journal reports Who''s Buying ''Youth'' Cars? Who is Buying Cars?

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MishTalk

JULY 30, 2013

Labor Union Report. In Italy, Markit reports Sharpest drop in retail sales since April. German retailers pointed to a reduction in their gross operating margins for the thirty-second consecutive month, with the rate of decline little changed since June. Gold's Honest Discipline. Taxpayer Friendly Sites. CATO Institute.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 13, 2016

Well, Carney went on to say specifically that “… as a backstop, and to support the functioning of the markets, the Bank of England stands ready to provide more than 250 billion pounds of additional funds through its normal market operations.” ” What did he mean by this? trillion in financial assets. A few reasons.

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Banking Financial Policies Government 60

MishTalk

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

The government prepared the way for using the army on Wednesday, when the defence ministry said the military could be deployed in “antiterrorist” operations. The moves in Russia are very like the events during the war in Georgia in 2008. Army personnel are themselves split 50/50 in their views of Ukraine.”

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MishTalk

JULY 31, 2013

Labor Union Report. 11, 2008 — The Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007 generally allows taxpayers to exclude income from the discharge of debt on their principal residence. The lender is usually required to report the amount of the canceled debt to you and the IRS on a Form 1099-C, Cancellation of Debt.

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Real Estate Case Interview Financial Advertising 74

MishTalk

AUGUST 5, 2013

Labor Union Report. Please consider the Wall Street Journal report Daddy, What Was a Truck Driver? Traditionally, these trucks would require four drivers to operate 24 hours a day. Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. December 2008 (85).

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Real Estate Financial Trends Advertising 78

Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter-to-quarter or even year-to year-revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. Microsoft ended the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

ABF Freight, the seventh-largest LTL carrier reported a decline in revenues due to lower fuel surcharges and lower tonnage levels, even though shipments rose year over year. Heartland Express , the 12th-largest TL, reported a whopping 35 percent drop in third quarter earnings year of year. Operating revenue decreased 15.9

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2018

Does a robot manage your money? Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. This would represent between 10% and 15% of total retail financial assets under management.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

Mainardi, even more effusive, stated that the merger will “help reinvent management consulting for the next century.”. Less than half of PwC’s revenues now come from its assurance business, and consulting is one of its fastest growing operations. It ultimately went belly up.

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2016

The current mantra is “Move fast with stable infrastructure”, which speaks to the organizational design challenge of operating at scale in a fickle and volatile world. ” It further revealed a complex and siloed organization, with competing operating assumptions, values, and practices across the group.

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MishTalk

JULY 9, 2013

Labor Union Report. For further discussion, heres a recap of the Fed Uncertainty Principle written April 3, 2008 before the Bernanke Fed started slashing rates in the Global Financial Crisis. Fed is operating under the principle that its easier to get forgiveness than permission. December 2008 (85). November 2008 (78).

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 7, 2014

In 2000, the group launched its first website, www.bridgespan.org, and started operations from a Boston-based office. In 2008, Bridgespan redesigned its website in an attempt to provide better knowledge transfer. Colin Bowman – Product Manager – Yahoo. Their services emphasized analytical consulting.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

The blizzard of conferences, initiatives, articles, and reports on how to prepare for the changes technology will bring to our economy is important. At Costco, another good jobs retailer, store managers are empowered to display merchandise and provide input into the merchandising system. We call this approach the Good Jobs Strategy.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 22, 2014

The president said the hack on the Hollywood studio was not an act of war but was “very costly”, and could land Pyongyang back on the administration’s terror list, a designation lifted by the Bush administration in 2008 during nuclear talks. I’ll wait to review what the findings are.” We were very surprised by it…. We have not caved.

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Interviews Film Case Interview Policies 70

MishTalk

JANUARY 18, 2016

Furthermore, as we reported earlier this week, the Fed indicated 'under the table' that banks were to work with the energy companies on delivering without a markdown on worry that a backstop, or bail-in, was needed after reviewing loan losses which would exceed the current tier 1 capital tranches." By, how much? Wells Fargo & Co.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. ” Improving risk management. ” Improving risk management. On the contrary, academic research and business experience point to quite the opposite.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2017

” The management literature is overflowing with advice on becoming the boss. With transparency in succession planning becoming a priority, career management for senior executives becomes easier. You can be stronger at one of them, but you need to know how to manage both.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 12, 2015

Back in the Saddle Bloomberg reports writes Ally Returns to Mortgage Business Two Years After Total Exit. The bank has no plans to securitize its originations, and it won’t keep any servicing rights or build out a servicing operation, Ally spokeswoman Gina Proia said in an e-mail. financial conference in New York.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 17, 2020

My experience with crisis management comes from two perspectives. There was the Great Recession in 2008. I’ve also led mass casualty training exercises as a field operations leader and incident commander. Let's say you’re in an office building and there are reports of a fire on the floor below you in one corner of the building.

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Leadership Case Interview Interviews Sales 88

Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2017

Lines like this are still used all too frequently when employees tell their managers that they want to move in a new direction. Managers are under tremendous pressure to generate results. I hear these challenges all the time as I work with managers at all levels, particularly in large corporations. Sales isn’t what you do.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Then, one day, I fortunately came across the Management Consulted website. ” I started dating the Management Consulted website and began loving it. Thanks Team Management Consulted, for opening the gates of my career, and I am sure you will continue to be a guide with a beacon along my journey!”

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Former employees have alleged a “soul-crushing” culture of fear and daily intimidation by managers, where they were pressured to reach extreme sales goals, some by breaking the law. Along with fixing the sales culture, the bank will have to address these critical management issues to prevent the next scandal.

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MishTalk

JULY 9, 2015

Dow Jones Newswires reported on the news conference. Those who preserved bills at home will receive a rate of 250 trillion to $1 for their 2008-issued notes and 250 to $1 for their 2009-issued notes. Mike "Mish" Shedlock [link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management.

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MishTalk

MARCH 1, 2015

The outlook remains negative, signaling more cuts are possible, New York-based Moody’s said Friday in a report. The city’s credit quality could weaken as unfunded pension liabilities grow and exert increased pressure on the city’s operating budget,” Moody’s analysts Matthew Butler and Rachel Cortez wrote. “ cities, excluding Detroit.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time. Over the same time period, the company saw a 10-fold increase in revenue.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Through my leadership development work with the United Nations (UN), I’ve been privileged to work with professionals who operate in some of the world’s most challenging contexts. Her team investigates and reports human rights violations, such as the ongoing genocide of the Yazidi minority by the Islamic State , also known as ISIS.

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