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Financial Engineering Chart of the Day: Fed Balance Sheet vs. S&P 500

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Fed Balance Sheet vs. S&P 500 I was playing around with some ideas on the St Louis Fed "Fred" database and came up with this. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction.

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Align sales and marketing to gain customers, drive growth

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Marketing and sales teams have traditionally had two separate objectives in most organizations: the marketing team works to get leads and fill the top of the funnel, while the sales team focuses on the bottom of the funnel and closing those leads. At TTEC, those people are strategic marketing managers (SMMs), or data scientists.

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

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Insights into what customers want and need are more important than ever as the economy and market conditions change. One of the ways that his company is improving its customer experience, particularly in the digital space, is by providing greater personalization through automation and marketing analytics, according to Lee.

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Inequality Isn’t Just Due to Market Forces — It’s Caused by Decisions the Boss Makes, Too

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In it, the authors, both sociologists, made a compelling argument that, to understand labor market outcomes like inequality, it wasn’t enough to look at the supply and demand for individuals’ skills. However, any discussion of firms and wage inequality must not be limited to discussion of market forces. Related Video.

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BIS Slams the Fed; Ridiculous Question of the Day: "Is The Fed Going To Attempt A Controlled Collapse?"

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It is essential to move away from debt as the main engine of growth. " The BIS slam, coupled with a recent stock market selloff, brought up debate on a " controlled collapse ". Gross issuance in the high-yield bond market alone soared to $90 billion per quarter in 2013 from a pre-crisis quarterly average of $30 billion.

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3 Common M&A Pitfalls, and How to Avoid Them

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On the flip side, a strategic transaction can catapult a company into first-mover position, give a speed to market advantage over rivals, and potentially let a larger company run away with a new market. There are a host of things that lead to failure — financial losses, stock drops, lost market opportunities, fizzled dreams.

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

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Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Once one of the most powerful companies in the world, today the company has a market capitalization of less than $1 billion. Why did this happen?

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