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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Big Brother Français; Don't.

MishTalk

Labor Union Report. The Financial Times reports Veil lifted on France’s ‘Big Brother’ Network. France operates an “immense” surveillance system of telephone, email and internet traffic similar to the US operation revealed last month by whistleblower Edward Snowden, Le Monde newspaper reported on Thursday.

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Stop Doing Low-Value Work

Harvard Business

Between January 2008 and February 2010, 8.8 A smart controller had been producing monthly reports for years that nobody read. A professor decided to write personal references only for her advisees or the students in her seminars, and announced the fact to her lecture classes. million jobs were lost. Write your own rules.

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ZS Associates Firm Profile

Management Consulted

This was a eureka moment not just for Andy & Prabhas but also for all the executives attending the seminar from multiple companies. In 2008, the firm celebrated their silver anniversary of 25 years of extraordinary growth. Not bad for some academics with a basic algorithmic model on an early Apple computer! Industries.