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Overcoming Data Collection Challenges in Consulting

Tom Spencer

I was assigned to a typical strategy engagement – should client X selling product Y increase sales in market Z? We repeated our request a week later, but they only provided a balance sheet from the previous year. His advice was specific to consulting, but applicable to other areas of business too.

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2008 Financial Crisis – Causes and historical context

Tom Spencer

My friends and I walked out of the Big Short several years ago feeling like a group of global financial crisis experts. Many an economics and finance course later, I see that the layers of complexities to the 2008 financial crisis are innumerable. Once the housing market began to collapse, mortgages defaulted, and MBS began to fail.

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Mish Fined 8,000 Euros for Quoting French Blog

MishTalk

trillion balance sheet is leveraged nearly 49-to-1. As a group, these three banks have some €4 trillion in assets on their balance sheets, supported by €129.3 As a group, these three banks have some €4 trillion in assets on their balance sheets, supported by €129.3 By contrast, J.P.

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How the Great Recession Changed Banking

Harvard Business

The market panicked. That strengthened investment banks’ balance sheets by forcing them to scale back and to change the nature of the risks they take. Less apparent to the outside world is how much banks are also investing in controls, especially in their compliance, risk, and finance divisions.

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Why Apple Is Getting into the Energy Business

Harvard Business

As the electric power industry shifts from a model where individual local utilities have a monopoly on electricity provision in a region to a much more dynamic market, these prosumers will be able to make and sell a variety of obscure new products and services like frequency regulation. California, Texas, and most of the U.S.

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The Globalization Backlash Is Reverberating Through Boardrooms

Harvard Business

In 2015, Global Trade Alert, an independent trade-monitoring group, cited at least 644 discriminatory trade measures imposed by the G20 economies with the U.S. Meanwhile the Institute of International Finance forecasted net capital flows for emerging markets in 2015 would be negative for the first time since 1988.

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Descent of the Global Monetary System

Tom Spencer

The smaller the group of people, the easier it is to reach agreement on what to use as money. Australia, Canada, the EU, Japan, Mexico, the UK, and America), when they devalue their currency it tends to weaken in the foreign exchange market, making the country more competitive in global trade. Within my family, chocolate can work.

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