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Five Housing Headwinds; Mortgage Originations Lowest Since 2010; Refinancible Loan Percentage Collapses; Payment Shock

MishTalk

Origination Volume Lowest Since 2010 Refi Activity Collapses with Rising Rates 2013 Best Vintage on Record Home Equity Loans Up Refinancible Loan Percentage Collapses Payment Shock on HELOCs Key Takeaways Performance on 2013 origination is at record highs because of record low interest rates coupled with rising home values.

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Friday Fusion: August 21, 2020

Tsavo Neal

The best theme on the market for consultants is X Theme by Themeco. X Theme is the perfect theme for creating effective digital marketing materials for consultants. Tsavo Neal — Designer & Content Marketer. Tsavo Neal Consulting – Founder & Digital Marketing Consultant (OCT 2016 – PRESENT). EXPERIENCE.

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7 Data-Driven Characteristics of Teams that make Better Decisions

Organizational Talent Consulting

A good working definition of what it means to embrace data-driven decision-making is: Using facts extracted from data and metrics to guide business decisions that support business goals rather than relying on experience, intuition, and stories alone. Pay attention to metrics that matter and provide regular updates. McGraw-Hill.

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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

While working with a large Forbes Top 25 Private Company, we quantified the value of leadership using internal key business metrics and various cognitive and behavioral leader assessments. times greater financial returns than market averages. Journal of Public Relations Research, 26: 256–279. Walumbwa, F., Hartnell, C., &

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Bridging Organization Design and Performance

Kates Kesler

The economic recovery of 2010-2015 has triggered a number of high-profile mergers, but even more break-ups and spin-offs among large global companies, particularly those based in the US. GOMs are typically composed of three dimensions: Geographic market units (regions, countries, or country clusters).

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People Who Graduate During Recessions Earn Less Money — but They’re Happier

Harvard Business

When the graduating classes of 2009, 2010, and 2011 hit the job market, their employment prospects were depressingly bleak. Nine months after graduation, only 56% of the class of 2010 had found a job. One metric of self-focus is narcissism: the belief that one is special, unique, and entitled to good outcomes.

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Rising COVID cases, falling economy

Tom Spencer

trillion towards the end of 2010. If Keen is sincere in his belief that gold is not money, then he should find it truly baffling that the US holds more than 8,000 metric tons of gold in reserve. Free market capitalism is about increasing the stock of productive capital over time. That means it took 97 years to add the first $2.4