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Strong Economy – Strong Buy-Sell Market

Martinka Consulting

Record number of small business sales in 2018! Second question: is there similar activity with larger companies, small, mid-sized, and lower middle market firms? PriceWaterhouseCoopers – Two-thirds of companies with sales of $5,000,000 to $50,000,000 will change hands in the next 10 years (2011). Pretty small. Easy money.

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Earnings Cheating Season: Is Your Favorite Company Cooking the Books?

MishTalk

Most correlation analysis finds virtually no post-war relationship between economic growth and the stock market. Indeed, we knew from Japan that the equity market would start to track the economic and earnings cycle closely. A sharp decline in EPS optimism since 2009 has been consistent with previous hiatuses in financial markets.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. “Stranded assets” are investments that become obsolete due to regulatory, environmental, or market constraints. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

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We Tracked Every Dollar 235 U.S. Households Spent for a Year, and Found Widespread Financial Vulnerability

Harvard Business

The lack of access to stable, predictable cash flows is the hard-to-see source of much of today’s economic insecurity. Financial Diaries (USFD), an unprecedented study to collect detailed cash flow data for U.S. This income volatility is the result of broad shifts in the labor market. households.

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Time to Short the US Dollar? Go Long Commodities?

MishTalk

The headline call was and remains that Germany will be close to recession by Q4-2014 or Q1-2015 setting up a desperate ECB and a Europe once again close to zero growth instead of the “escape velocity” everyone and their dog promised you and me in December and January. The US average GDP the last five years has been 2.0%.