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Wages vs. Real Wages Over Time: How the Fed Helped Destroy the Middle Class in Pictures

MishTalk

per hour in May of 2014. percent, seasonally adjusted, from May 2013 to May 2014. percent, seasonally adjusted, from May 2013 to May 2014. Following BLS methodology, let''s compare year-over year growth in CPI-W with year-over-year growth in average hourly earnings for production and nonsupervisory private employees.

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Nonperforming Spanish Loans Near All-Time High as Overall Credit Shrinks

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Spanish Bank Shrinking Credit Nonperforming Loans The "real" numbers are normalized to account for a change in methodology. percent in January of 2014. Seven points higher than in the 1994 crisis. Today''s number is just off the all-Time high of 16.73 The "official" high was 13.62% in December of 2013.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

Satya Nadella, for instance, joined Microsoft in 1992 and worked his way up to running its cloud computing effort, building that business unit into a viable new growth platform before becoming CEO, in 2014. We always urge you to read the methodology carefully. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen.

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Fostering Employee Innovation at a 150-Year-Old Company

Harvard Business

The origins of our agile network can be traced back to an online idea forum called WeSolve that we launched in 2014 as a way of challenging Bayer employees to contribute solutions to specific technical or commercial problems. The innovation agenda.

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New Home Sales "Better, Not Strong", and Regionally Very Uneven: US +6.7%, Midwest +47.4%, Northeast -26.7%

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The Census Bureau Residential Home Sales report shows Sales of new single-family houses in April 2014 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 433,000. 2014 January (r) 457 30 51 256 120 5.0 April 2014 from April 2013 -4.2% -31.3% Sales are 6.4 percent (±15.9%) above the revised March rate of 407,000, but is 4.2 Supply is 5.3

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A Closer Look at How the Opioid Epidemic Affects Employment

Harvard Business

from 2006 to 2014. This methodology of finding shifting—or helicopter drop—variables is referred to as “instrumental variables.” So what’s the actual connection between prescription opioids and the labor market?

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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies, 2016

Harvard Business

Methodology. This year’s index builds on the methodology of last year’s. Ryanair did this with its “Always Getting Better” program in 2014, scrapping unallocated seating and many hidden charges and reducing carry-on luggage restrictions. billion ($1.39 billion) in the year to end-March 2016.

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