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Strong Economy – Strong Buy-Sell Market

Martinka Consulting

PriceWaterhouseCoopers – Two-thirds of companies with sales of $5,000,000 to $50,000,000 will change hands in the next 10 years (2011). Next, the economy got pretty good starting in 2011 and most of those soon-to-exit owners were now saying, “recession, what recession, this is pretty good (so why would I sell)?”.

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2016 ECS Value Creators Report: Building Endurance

BCG

In this year’s report, which examines value creation in the industry from 2011 through 2015, we have expanded the size of the total sample of ECS companies to 80 in order to better reflect the geographic scope and business diversity of industry participants. Infrastructure construction companies had a median TSR of 8% from 2011 through 2015.

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Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation?

MishTalk

So refraining from any forecast of what will happen in the near term, it’s sufficient to observe that the economic data is not nearly as strong as widely perceived, and the impact of QE on stock prices does nothing to improve the underlying cash flows. Strategist News : Best Business Blogs 2011. -->. December 2011 (108).

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Chinese Malls Hit With Low Traffic, Rising Vacancies, Plunging Rent, Massive Overcapacity

MishTalk

Less foot traffic means cash flow of mall owners and developers are getting squeezed - a potential hazard for an economy growing at its slowest pace in decades. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific. Major listed mall operators are also feeling the pain.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business

oil production, up from a mere 10% just seven years ago in 2011. In fact, 2018 may mark the first year shale producers will be able to fund future expansions of drilling programs through their own cash flow. By placing upper and lower bounds on price volatility, producers can count on a more certain cash flow.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business

Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies.

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Shockingly Bad Fiscal Health of Chicago (and the Financial Engineering Chicago Uses to Hide that Fact)

MishTalk

Bond Girl, using the Twitter handle @munilass, had been posting commentary about state and city borrowing and issues beyond public finance since April 2011. From 2009 to 2011, the city used $320 million from the Metered Parking Reserves. It is not a balance sheet test, but a cash flow test. swaptions and the like.