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

Harvard Business

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. Here are some strategies to improve your financial intelligence. See More Videos > See More Videos > Tackle the balance sheet. Overcome your fears. Related Video.

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The Globalization Backlash Is Reverberating Through Boardrooms

Harvard Business

As a practical matter, for example, these changes in the global policy regime are forcing multinational corporations to scale back and sell parts of their international operations. 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.

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Persistent Overoptimism Three Ways: Truckers, Fed Economists, Manufacturers

MishTalk

Operating revenue decreased 15.9 A possible explanation for the SEP’s prediction of a rapid catch-up to potential GDP after 2009 is that participants overestimated the efficacy of monetary policy in the aftermath of a so-called balance-sheet recession. Here are the readings for 2015. 7/2015 -14.92 8/2015 -14.67

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Why Apple Is Getting into the Energy Business

Harvard Business

Energy-efficient lighting, motors, and other hardware continue to make good sense for many firms, whether financed on the balance sheet or by third parties who provide the upfront capital and then share the savings on future power bills. B operated the same way as A, with no special control.

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Seven Charts Explain Why Chicago Bonds Rated Junk

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Chart #2: Growing Payments While the current state of the city’s balance sheet is dismal, the real problem relates to what is expected to develop over the next decade. Chicago pension plan payments are expected to double from 2014 to 2015, and will then continue to rise for another decade before they begin to decline.

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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?

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The certificates of deposits will push banks closer to an operating environment in which rates are deregulated and are also aimed at improving the circulation of cash in the country’s interbank market. 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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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business

The constantly fluctuating number of barrels of crude available from nimble shale operations is a primary driver, but so are the long-term impact of increased fuel efficiency and the fits and starts of the global transition away from fossil fuels on world demand. .—while The soaring U.S.