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What is the Professional Services Industry All About?

Progressus

Client Trends and Factors Disrupting the Professional Services Industry For professional services firms, it’s getting harder to meet client expectations and win new business – even though demand remains strong as clients rely more on experts to help them navigate their post-COVID comeback.

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China Faces "Minsky Moment" on Ponzi Financing

MishTalk

Work by Nomura’s Chief China Economist indicates that more than half of Local Government Funding Vehicles, which borrow money on behalf of local governments to invest in infrastructure, have insufficient cash flows to pay interest or principal; the exact manifestation of Minsky’s Ponzi finance regime.

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We Can’t Study Short-Termism Without the Right Metrics

Harvard Business

While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic.

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AAA – Not to the Rescue

Martinka Consulting

When it comes time to sell however, they want to demonstrate that the business has more cash flow than the tax returns (and financial statements) show. Adjustments , as in, “you can adjust some of our operations to make more profit.” A corporation can hold their annual meeting in Hawaii in January and write it off.

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Sam Zell Warns Recession Coming, Provides Opinions on 22 Topics Including Fed Tools, Equities, Real Estate, Energy, China, Brazil, Mexico, Climate Change

MishTalk

Number three there's an existing cash flow. But the answer is we've got a lot of involvement in net operating loss carry forwards. But also extend and enshrine benefits for medical device makers, health insurers and renewable energy. Valiant will host a meeting with investors later today. ZELL: Maybe I win.