MishTalk

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Members start Tuesday afternoon discussion of the draft law on financing of Social Security. The executive wants to "harmonize the rule", which should generate 600 million euros in 2014. on their pensions, expected to bring €645 million in 2014. Here is another case in point via translation from Les Echos.

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MishTalk

JULY 9, 2015

Greek finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble has a sense of humor. Who knew Wolfgang Schäuble, Germany’s prickly finance minister, had a sense of humor? billion euros in sovereign debt, which equals 177% of its 2014 GDP, according to Eurostat data. Today he said to U.S. At a news conference on Thursday, Schäuble chided U.S.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 18, 2014

Spain is again dependent on foreign financing. Via translation from Libre Mercado, Spain Again Borrows Abroad to Finance Consumption. That is, the entire country that year said external financing close to 100 billion euros to cover their consumption and investment. Think Spain is going to meet its budget deficit goals for 2014?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

That leaves most organizations lacking a clear total workforce perspective and no integrated strategy to engage workers at the right time, cost, and contractual arrangement. The disconnect between HR and Procurement often means either choice is suboptimal on its own, so operating managers circumvent both HR and Procurement.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

After Italy rebuffed warnings about its budget, euro-area finance ministers late Friday agreed to give the country additional opportunities to show it can make savings and bolster revenue. member states, including Italy, aim at the stability of their public finances.” It is very important that all E.U.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 17, 2014

Just two days before New year 2014, Antonis Samaras told his People that Greece would leave its bailout programme next year without needing a third aid package. “In In 2014 we will make the big step of exiting the loan agreement,” said the Greek PM in a nationally televised address. “In The total payments due in 2014 are €31.6bn.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 28, 2013

The remaining money will be paid starting January 1, 2014 and shall come primarily from Treasury reserves and surpluses that have accumulated in the various issues of bonds and notes recent months. link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

The company specializes in enterprise cloud computing applications, particularly customer relationships management (CRM), allowing companies to automate their sales and customer service processes. As a result, Salesforce was ranked the #7 Best Company To Work For on Fortune magazine’s 2014 list. Are you an employer?

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

In a document prepared ahead of this week’s G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors in Australia, the IMF said that growth in the first half of this year was weaker than it had predicted in April. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Russia Cancels Debt Auctions Second Week Yesterday, Reuters reported Russia cancels domestic bond auction citing market conditions Russia''s finance ministry cancelled its weekly domestic bond auctions for the second week in a row on Tuesday, saying in a statement the decision was "based on an analysis of current market conditions".

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Hi Mish, As you were expecting, France did not manage to get as much tax revenue as expected by the government. Forecasts deemed "plausible" by the High Council of Public Finance, however warned of "a significant gap" between the structural deficit in 2013 (excluding cyclical effects) to 2.6% of GDP in 2014 and 2.8%

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 2, 2013

On Monday, Spain reported that its debt-to-GDP ratio would hit 100% in 2014. Spain''s public debt will soar to nearly 100 percent of output at the end of 2014, the government said Monday, despite massive spending cuts that have triggered angry street protests. The government plans to raise pensions by 0.25% in 2014.

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MishTalk

JULY 28, 2014

New Zealand Dollar Overvalued by 20% On April 10, 2014 the IMF warned New Zealand Dollar May Be Overvalued. Canadian Dollar Overvalued by 10% On March 2, 2014 the IMF Warned Canadian Dollar Overvalued by 10%" despite recent depreciation, thus the Bank of Canada should wait before hiking rates. A few examples will prove the point.

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Kates Kesler

JULY 2, 2015

Between 2012 and 2014 alone, Kraft, Royal Dutch Philips, Hewlett Packard, Ingersoll Rand, ConocoPhillips, Darden, and E-Bay agreed to split off substantial portions of their business in response to a groundswell of hostility toward underperforming diversified companies. As organization designers this trend intrigues us.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 14, 2014

The data from the currency bloc’s two largest economies came as the embattled French government said the disappointing growth meant it would miss its budget deficit this year and halved its gross domestic product forecast for 2014. French finance minister Michel Sapin said that economic growth this year would now be 0.5

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Kates Kesler

AUGUST 23, 2014

Ram Charan’s provocative article ( It’s Time to Split HR, HBR, p 34, July-Aug 2014 ) voices a common frustration we hear both from business executives and frankly, HR leaders themselves. If a CHRO can’t build and run a multi-dimensional organization, then he or she certainly can’t advise line managers on how to do so.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 22, 2017

Continuing to expand, in 2014 the company took on a new goal: to bring clean, safe drinking water to cities in need while creating a sustainable system therein. We offer a bi-monthly newsletter (by application only) for high level strategy jobs at top firms around the world. Are you an employer,recruiter, or hiring manager?

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

The Pennsylvania Economy League, which is overseeing Scranton’s Act 47 recovery plan, warned last month the city would have to raise taxes to avoid a default at the beginning of the 2014 fiscal year. Finance reports Fitch downgrades Chicago bond ratings. Fitch Downgrades Chicago Citing Pension Problems.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 4, 2013

The exit tax was established in 1999, repealed in 2005, then reintroduced in the first Amended Finance Act for 2011. Despite the tough stance, the measure is expected to have very little impact on the public finances. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.'

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 4, 2015

Stacked full of big-brained folks, most of Analysis Group’s 600+ staff hold advanced degrees in law, economics, finance, accounting or business. In some ways, it feels like a boutique firm, whereas in others it feels like a pure strategy firm. Strategy & Analytics. Jiaona Zhang – Product Manager – Pocket Gems.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Through a set of quarterly special surveys it also aims to focus in depth on special topics such as household finances as well as labor and housing market issues and outcomes. Median spending projections took a sustained turn for the worse in December of 2014. Low-end spending projections to a sustained dive starting November of 2014.

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MishTalk

MAY 28, 2014

The French government faces a 14bn-euro black hole in its public finances after overestimating tax income for the last financial year. These figures reflect the situation observed in early 2014 year and they should be interpreted with caution because of the high volatility of monthly data, not the trend in the second quarter."

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 18, 2015

Headquarters: Chicago, IL Employees: 3,200 Locations: 58 offices, 40 countries Chief Executive: Johan Aurik, Managing Partner and Chairman of the Board Revenue: $1B Consulting Engagement Cost: $400K. 1935 – Tom Kearney becomes managing partner. Named fifth-largest broad-based multidisciplined management consultancy in the U.S.;

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MishTalk

APRIL 26, 2014

‘The probability of inflation exceeding the 5% target at the end of 2014 has increased substantially’, the Russian central bank said in a statement. However, the central bank estimates that inflation would not exceed 6 per cent by the end of 2014. Annual inflation stood at 7.2 per cent as of Monday, April 21st.

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MishTalk

JULY 30, 2014

per cent as of March 2014), so an important detail about the EU sanctions package as regards both overall impact and burden sharing between the member states will be whether the prohibition on financing Russian banks will extend to ordinary lending. From a financing standpoint, I suspect Granville is correct. On that, I agree.

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MishTalk

MARCH 11, 2014

Finance reports U.S. Census Bureau announced today that January 2014 sales of merchant wholesalers, except manufacturers’ sales branches and offices, after adjustment for seasonal variations and trading-day differences but not for price changes, were $432.6 Wholesale Inventories Rise, but Sales Drop Sharply. billion, down 1.9

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MishTalk

AUGUST 31, 2013

Japan''s government won backing for a controversial decision to raise the national sales tax in 2014 after influential members of a special advisory panel said the step would not threaten economic recovery or business confidence if it was coupled with other stimulus.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Finance Exchange says Obamacare Could Be a Fraudsters’ Free-For-All. Starting in 2014, being sick won''t keep you from getting health coverage. Coverage starts as soon as January 1, 2014. Open enrollment ends on March 31, 2014. Rick Newman, writing for Yahoo!Finance Have any idea where to find a health insurance exchange?

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Management Consulted

JUNE 14, 2015

Founded in 1995 by former Bain consultants and headquartered in New York City, they focus on developing airline strategy and implementing major operational turnaround. Then, underneath three of these sub-subsidiaries are, you guessed it, more subsidiaries, such as Seabury Airline Planning Group LLC and Seabury Maritime Corporate Finance LLC.

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MishTalk

JULY 26, 2014

The Yen was in this general area, at times, in 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, and 2014. percent, according to finance ministry data. And the Ministry of Finance rubbed it in today when it published the trade statistics for June. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.'

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

Records management. They did much of the work piecing together Mr. Madoff’s money trail and just recently flew over to Puerto Rico for the Puerto Rico Government, who hired FTI to improve operations of utilities and highway units (2014). Corporate Finance/Restructuring. Interim Management. E-discovery software provider.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

We don’t stop at interviewing and choosing good candidates; we give them detailed insight into the company’s finances, strategy, individual consultant performance, and implications on compensation so they can make a fully informed decision about whether to join us.

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Management Consulted

MAY 21, 2015

Among other awards, T-Mobile has been named one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies, and in 2014 was ranked at No. We offer a bi-monthly newsletter (by application only) for high level strategy jobs at top firms around the world. Are you an employer,recruiter, or hiring manager? 20 by Fast Company. Let us help you.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Given this situation the government has already prepared a package of tax increases for 2014 that would help meet the deficit of 5.8 link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. of GDP in 2013 committed to Brussels. percent committed for next year.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Bridgespan has a board of 12 distingushed trustees whose backgrounds include both the for-profit and non-profit sectors, two of them being Thomas Tierney, Cofounder & Chairman, and Bob Bechek, Worldwide Managing Director of Bain & Company. Strategy Consulting. Funding Strategy. Global Strategy. Networking Groups.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Target2 Imbalances January 2007 - April 2014 Wikipedia has some good information (but also some fluff about how Target2 makes things more stable). Weidman said in a Spiegel interview that "bond buying made it look as if ECB was financing governments directly — and shouldn’t go ahead". Here is a long-term chart from Wikipedia.

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MishTalk

JUNE 9, 2015

The Bond Buyer report was based on an analysis of state comptroller’s local government Finance Warehouse by Marc Joffe at CivicPartner , a municipal finance research firm. Robbins According to its 2014 Audited Financial Statements , the Village of Robbins had a net unrestricted position of -$7.0 The others did not comment.

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