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Another "Print Your Way to Prosperity" Mindless MMT Proposal

MishTalk

The Fed’s tapering merely slows the growth of its balance sheet. The rarely admitted truth, however, is that there is no need for central banks’ balance sheets to shrink. They could stay permanently larger; and, for some countries, permanently bigger central-bank balance sheets will help reduce public-debt burdens.

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Getting Your Deal Done

Martinka Consulting

You may think it sexy to make something but if you’re a sales type with no manufacturing experience it’s probably a road to disaster. Have a strong balance sheet. I recently saw a business for sale and on the surface it looked great, with $1 million of earnings. They are motivation, relationship, and education.

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6 Reasons Inflation is Higher than You Think

Tom Spencer

education, medical services, legal services). For example, a consumer who has new clothes, a new phone, and a new computer, but who can’t afford high quality education, medical, and legal services, does not really have equal access to the fruits of economic progress or the ability to fully participate in the economy.

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Has COVID-19 Derailed Your Planning? Tips From a Crisis Management Expert

Martinka Consulting

You can’t make sales calls when ordered not to. My top things are: Stay educated. If you have a line of credit, consider using it to get cash on your balance sheet. We should all realize there is nothing most of us could or can do when something like this wallops us. But that doesn’t mean you go into hibernation mode.

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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business

Located in the heart of Colombia’s coffee region, in 2012 Manizales was a good place to grow up and get an education, and an even better place to retire, safe and surrounded by beautiful scenery. The average participant in the first cohort has actually doubled its sales. strategic hires). 2 – Broadly communicating growth.

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business

My guess is that while a poor balance sheet might cause restless sleep, it’s the thought of an incorrectly reported balance sheet that brings on night terrors. Obviously, no one wants to miss a short-term forecast or sales goal. What’s a typical independent director’s worst nightmare?

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

MishTalk

Among other things, she handles the structuring and sale of bonds for schools across the state. Culpepper “is regarded as an authority on capital projects and debt by the Legislative body, ” according to a Kentucky Education Department website posted in November that announced her appointment.