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Consulting or Banking

Tom Spencer

This post provides you with a high level comparison of management consulting and investment banking. Investment banks help companies raise money for various purposes including investment, acquisitions, and provision of working capital. Traders buy and sell securities with the bank’s money with the aim of making money for the bank.

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The Fed: Chairmen More Powerful Than Presidents

Tom Spencer

The Fed influences the world economy Professors in banking and finance often use the metaphor of the economy as a plane and the Fed as the pilot. The federal funds rate determines the cost of interbank borrowing in the overnight money market, which influences the interest rates that banks charge on consumer and business loans.

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Why marketing should be investing in both the digital and the physical

The Source

Whether it’s the demise of the high street travel agent and the high street bank, the growth of online shopping, or the relationships we maintain in the virtual world, digital has impacted all our lives.

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How I Became a Millionaire as an Independent Consultant

Successful Independent Consulting

Yet my bank account says I’m a millionaire. If I see money in my bank account, even if it’s my savings account, I get looser with my spending. Knowing this and knowing that four times a year I had to make big tax payments, I set up a “sweep account” with an online bank, not my day-to-day bank. How did I do this?

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Fraud or Just Marketing

Martinka Consulting

What this means is the owner’s salary, medical insurance, cell phone, car, travel, and more are added to profit because these items are “discretionary” not necessary. The bottom line is someone has to run the company and whether it’s the owner or a hired gun they deserve to be paid a fair market salary for that work. Bob Marley.

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Ukraine Central Bank Imposes 6-Day Waiting Period on Foreign Currency Purchases; Capital Controls Hit Ukraine in Effort to Halt Money Exodus

MishTalk

Ukraine’s central bank imposed limits on foreign-currency purchases after its interventions failed to alleviate pressure on the hryvnia, while President Viktor Yanukovych left to meet his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. and the European Union discuss potential aid, Yanukovych traveled to the opening ceremony of the Sochi Olympics.

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Saxo Bank Outrageous Predictions for 2014 Steen Jakobsen - My Comments

MishTalk

Saxo Bank''s Outrageous Predictions for 2014 came out last month, but given that Steen Jakobsen, Chief Economist for Saxo Bank will be speaking at Wine Country Conference II on May 1-2, a review of Saxo Bank''s predictions is in order. Sounds crazy right? Well, these days, everything is possible in the name of a crisis.

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