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Coronavirus & Consulting Offers

Tom Spencer

If the virus isn’t under control by May 1 st 2021 and the economy hasn’t picked up, do recruiters have plans to push back start dates? If the firms don’t have a strong balance sheet, if they foresee a potential cash flow problem, or if they have clients in particularly hard hit industries, I’d be concerned. Today, not so much.

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The Current State of IR35

Comatch

In 2021, IR35 or “Intermediaries Legislation” was amended in an attempt to discourage “disguised employees” from being treated as self-employed contractors. But, prior to April 6, 2021, the responsibility for determining employment status under IR35 lay mainly with the contractor rather than the client. No more than 50 employees.

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6 Reasons Inflation is Higher than You Think

Tom Spencer

Figure 1 : Growth in M2 vs Growth in Price Level, 1950 – 2021. Figure 1 above shows that the black line (growth in the money supply) is almost always above the red line (growth in the price level) for the period 1950 to 2021. Figure 3 : M2 Money Stock, 1960-2021. A period of aggressive QE could persist for some time.

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Getting Your Deal Done

Martinka Consulting

Have a strong balance sheet. As I write this it’s early 2021 so don’t forget the Covid non-financial factors. Business sellers please make it easy on your buyer, the bank, and your intermediary. Concentrate on the following (and there’s a lot more but I have space limitations): Clean up the books.

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Customer intent is a treasure trove of actionable data hiding in plain sight

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According to IDC analysts, businesses were estimated to have spent $215 billion in 2021 on big data and business analytics solutions, a 10% increase over 2020.

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We Need to Approach AI Risks Like We Do Natural Disasters

Harvard Business

Even with about $700 billion in capital available in the United States and hundreds of billions of dollars more around the globe, property and casualty insurers’ balance sheets are too small to cover all the potential losses from a global intelligent device disaster.