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Sad News For Greece? Will Greece Kiss Troika's Ass?

MishTalk

Greece’s outspoken finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has been sidelined after three months of fruitless talks with international creditors to unlock €7.2bn in bailout funds, heartening investors and sparking a rally on the Athens stock market. Yields on Greece’s benchmark 10-year bonds were down a full percentage point at 11.4

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Is the Stock Market in Big Trouble?

The Fearless Marketer

slide by the S&P 500 was the benchmark index’s steepest monthly fall since September 2011. In 2017 the market saw a growth of 25%, but in 2018 it lost 2.5%. The drop left the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -2.21%, down 5.1% in October for its biggest monthly drop since October 2008, while a 6.9%

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Australia's Alleged Conservatives Surrender to Unions; GM Australia vs. GM US; Currency Madness Everywhere

MishTalk

When these protected companies and industries cave in to unions, these new wages and working conditions become the benchmark and these wages flow onto every other sector. Looking for madness? Baggage handlers for QANTAS earn up to $85k per annum. It is not sustainable and the repercussions are being felt right now.

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Fighting Uncertainty in Organizations, Including Matrix Ones

Epicflow

Beyond just time, buffers can cover finances, manpower, and more. By regularly monitoring the consumption of these buffers – whether they pertain to time, resources, or finances – organizations can derive real-time insights into the health and progress of their projects. 5] Once in Red, Always in Red , Albert Ponsteen (2017). [6]

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The “Smart Society” of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction

Harvard Business

To set an aspirational but realistic target, we created a benchmark that combines the best attributes of these advanced digital nations. Second, with the benchmark as a composite, no single nation achieves it and yet each of the five countries’ progress toward the ideal can be assessed in terms of performance against the benchmark.