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Human Resources Management – How to Get Started

Tom Spencer

Human resource teams are critical to the growth of a company since employees typically represent both the biggest operating expense and largest off-balance sheet asset for most businesses. He was a Product Management Intern at PNC Bank and is an incoming Innovation Development Summer Analyst at JPMorgan Chase.

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Nothing Magical About 2% Inflation Target Says Bernanke

MishTalk

I don’t see anything magical about targeting 2 percent inflation ,” Bernanke told a conference in Washington sponsored by the International Monetary Fund. I don’t see anything magical about targeting 2 percent inflation,” he told a conference in Washington sponsored by the International Monetary Fund.

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6 Reasons Inflation is Higher than You Think

Tom Spencer

Due to improved technology and rising productivity, the Federal Reserve has been able to juice the money supply for more than 70 years without it showing up too much in the price level. While the total assets on the Fed’s balance sheet are currently more than $8 trillion , there is more than $57 trillion of total debt in the US economy.

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Back in the Saddle, Just in the Nick of Time

MishTalk

financial conference in New York. Ally isn’t expected to start offering risky products the way GMAC did, according to Jeff Davis at Mercer Capital. Today, Ally has a pristine balance sheet and is focused on its strengths with its leading domestic automotive services and direct banking franchises.”

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business

GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment through the internet of things and analytical software with a suite of products called Predix Cloud. Everything is on the table,” Flannery said on a conference call to discuss quarterly earnings. “Things will not stay the same at GE.”

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10 Flaws with Mainstream Economics

Tom Spencer

For example, Amazon earned only modest profits from 2004 to 2015, choosing instead to focus on increasing market share and developing new products. Arguments that categorically favour free trade by reasoning that decreases in domestic production are more than offset by increases in consumer surplus overlook this point. Equilibrium.

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Pettis on Debt, Malinvestments, Hidden Losses, and China's GDP

MishTalk

Any model that predicts China’s future GDP growth must include, if it is to be valid, a variable that reflects estimates of the amount of hidden losses buried in the banks’ balance sheets. In theory these conditions can be counterbalanced by an explosion in productivity unleashed by the reforms.