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Thoughts on Blockchain & Crypto

CaseInterview.com

Cryptocurrencies don’t produce a monthly cash flow like, say, renting out a home or building full of apartments (or flats). So, it’s not inherently a cash-flow-producing type of asset. In 2017, a bitcoin traded at roughly $1,000. Did bitcoin holders receive a lot more in monthly cash flow?

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How Competition Is Driving AI’s Rapid Adoption

Harvard Business

Amazon, born 24 years ago, had captured about 45% of online retail commerce in the United States by 2017, but still stood for just about 5% of total US retail gross merchandise volume in that year. Those technologies started to be used about ten to 25 years ago, and the average level of absorption of these technologies was about 37% in 2017.

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CEO Oasis: Relief for “Loneliness at the Top”

Emerson Consulting Group

For months now, Steve has been struggling over cash-flow problems with no solution in sight. C-Level Community: This innovative online subscriber service provides resources, blogs, webinars, an Expert of the Week Q&A, etc. As part of his ongoing column in Money Inc. for CEOs who don’t wish to leave their offices!

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Hospital Budget Systems Are Holding Back Innovation

Harvard Business

Nearly 800 digital health startups were funded in 2017, an all-time high. Each of these units acquires its own resources within constraints authorized by its departmental budget. Gillian Blease/Getty Images. Each of the new companies offers the hope of transforming the performance of the U.S. health care system.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business

That deal sent the price of Brent crude oil to above $70 a barrel in January, after the industry that had suffered through $54 per barrel oil on average in 2017. In fact, 2018 may mark the first year shale producers will be able to fund future expansions of drilling programs through their own cash flow.

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Shockingly Bad Fiscal Health of Chicago (and the Financial Engineering Chicago Uses to Hide that Fact)

MishTalk

Although most governments are required to balance their budgets on a cash flow basis each fiscal year, a structural budget gap can arise when recurring expenditures are greater than recurring revenues. It is not a balance sheet test, but a cash flow test. This is not surprising. State Rep.