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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

Among CEO top priorities are sales growth and profit. Customer loyalty generates sales growth and profit. to 17.9%, from 1980 to 2015. Yet, according to the change master, Kotter, 70% of their strategies fail to reach their intended outcomes because of poor execution. We know everything. We don’t need to change.”

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Reflections on the "Sure Trade" of 2014; Yield Curve Inversion Possible? Five "Sure Things" for 2015?

MishTalk

And just two weeks into January of 2015, the 30-year long bond made a new intraday record low of 2.39%, breaking the previous low of 2.44% on July 26, 2012. Yield Curve as of 2015-01-14 click on chart for sharper image Huge Rally on Long End Duration Color 12/31/2013 2015-01-14 PP Difference 30-Year Red 3.96 2.47 -1.49

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What's Behind the Plunge in Oil? Winners and Losers? Boon to Spending or Recessionary?

MishTalk

The latter I expect to default sometime in 2015. Ninety minutes later, Russia’s central bank raised its benchmark to bolster a currency weakened by crude’s decline. In Houston, Texas, the first oil industry layoffs have been announced, with realtors there predicting a sharp decline, up to 12 percent, in home sales next year.

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Business Activity Contracts in Japan, Modest Expansion in China; PBOC Rate Cut Seen

MishTalk

Although only moderate, the rate of contraction was quicker than the average since the increase in the sales tax was implemented in April 2014. The People’s Bank of China will cut benchmark deposit and lending rates again next quarter as the economy slows, according to economists surveyed by Bloomberg. in February, down from 51.3

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Australia's Mining Bust Turns Towns Into Ghost Towns; Expect Interest Rate "Shock and Awe"

MishTalk

One real estate agent said “a hell of a lot” of property was on the market – about 400 houses were for rent or sale and buyers were scarce. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.'

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"UberCab" vs. Al Gore' $90 Trillion Plan to Rid World of Cars: Uber CEO Asks Tesla for 500,000 Autonomous Cars in 2020; Peak Cars?

MishTalk

Tesla Motors is one of several automakers planning to put a self-driving car on sale sometime in the next few years, and it already seems to have at least one big fan. That map and valuation is as of April 8, 2015. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.

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Reality Check: How Fast is China Growing? Global Recession at Hand

MishTalk

China''s growth target for 2015 is 7.0%. Orange and lemon groves turn to useless, vacant housing Property 20% of GDP and tracking negative (sales and pricing). Retail sales, one measure of how successful China has been at shifting to a more consumption-based growth model, also slowed in the first two months, expanding 10.7

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