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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. After all, if you’re trying to sell a product or strategy, you need to be able to demonstrate that it is both practical and high margin. Stop avoiding finance because you’re afraid of numbers. “Finance and accounting are very simple. .”

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Persistent Overoptimism Three Ways: Truckers, Fed Economists, Manufacturers

MishTalk

Third-quarter Gross Domestic Product grew at a 1.5 My personal belief is the trucking industry needs to realize production of goods will have ups and downs,” Satish Jindel, principal of SJ Consulting , which closely tracks industry pricing, told Logistics Management. Here are the readings for 2015. 7/2015 -14.92

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Pettis on Strains in China's Banking System; Avoiding the Fall

MishTalk

The fact that rates were cut, even though many reformers within the administration were very much opposed, exemplifies the challenges that Beijing will face in 2015. We are going to see this argument replayed many times in 2015. In either case they reduce consumption demand relative to production.

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Why Apple Is Getting into the Energy Business

Harvard Business

As the electric power industry shifts from a model where individual local utilities have a monopoly on electricity provision in a region to a much more dynamic market, these prosumers will be able to make and sell a variety of obscure new products and services like frequency regulation. California, Texas, and most of the U.S.

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China Cash Crunch Eases, For How Long? Three Things China Needs to Avoid; When can Beijing Truly move to Market-Determined Interest Rates?

MishTalk

Total credit in the economy (total social financing) showed a 40 per cent rise in November over the prior month and is on course for growth this year of almost 20 per cent. In fact we can judge the effectiveness of Beijing’s implementation of the reforms by how rapidly growth declines over the 2014 and 2015.

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The Globalization Backlash Is Reverberating Through Boardrooms

Harvard Business

In 2015, Global Trade Alert, an independent trade-monitoring group, cited at least 644 discriminatory trade measures imposed by the G20 economies with the U.S. Imports among the world’s 20 largest economies have fallen as a share of their gross domestic product for four consecutive years. at the forefront.

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10 Flaws with Mainstream Economics

Tom Spencer

Corporate finance academics argue that firms should act to maximise shareholder value, since shareholders are the owners of the firm. For example, Amazon earned only modest profits from 2004 to 2015, choosing instead to focus on increasing market share and developing new products. Factors of production. Equilibrium.