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Government Contracts Pricing Strategy – Ten Dynamic and Synergistic Pricing Practices

Granite Leadership Strategies

If you accept that money touches everything in your business and your Government contracts bids, you would be right. Being vibrant and a front-runner about pricing is more than just slogging through the Government tables. Being vibrant and a front-runner about pricing is more than just slogging through the Government tables.

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The Fed: Chairmen More Powerful Than Presidents

Tom Spencer

economy, which in turn impacts economic growth and government policies worldwide. 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. This is the second article in a series about the U.S. Federal Reserve. This may explain recent inflation.

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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

If the aviation industry continues down the path of high CO 2 emissions, what will happen when new aerospace markets open: sub-orbital travel, supersonic flight, and space hotels? Sub-orbital travel, popularized in 2021 by Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Elon Musk, is projected to become a $3.5 Billion industry by 2027.

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What is consulting?

Tom Spencer

When people think of consultants, they tend to visualize professionally suited employees, degrees from the best schools, high pay-checks and fancy travel stories. This might include advice on asset management, tax structuring, or capital structuring to reduce financing costs and sources of risk (e.g.

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Venezuela Strengthens Currency Controls in Impossible Mission to Stop Capital Flight; Airlines Collapse; End of the Line

MishTalk

However, following still more government restrictions on Venezuelan currency (known as Bolivars), some flights to and from Caracas were suspended today. Hyperinflation, and economic stupidity by the leftist government are both out of control. The exchange rate for foreign travelers was just set to is 11.36 Bolivars per dollar.

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Consulting or Banking

Tom Spencer

People in the “investment banking” or “corporate finance” division typically help large organisations undertake merges and acquisitions. Travel: Bankers sometimes do roadshows to drum up support from investors, but will typically spend 90% of their time in the office.

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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking

Management Consulted

The cons of investment banking – the long hours, the repetitive and unengaging nature of the work, the lack of non-finance exit opportunities – mattered far more to me than a 6-figure salary. Consultants – depending on firm – travel anywhere from 25-75% of their time. This attitude permeates all interactions.

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