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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business

By 2016, the rise of smart phones seemed to have made the company less relevant: Its revenues were at almost the same level they had been a full decade earlier. Immediately after joining Nikon, he decided to interview some of them. What he heard was uncomfortable.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: FHA Swamped By Defaults.

MishTalk

According to Ligon, the only way the FHA can avoid a bailout is to reduce its market share by lowering maximum loan limits to $325,000 over the next four years, raise credit requirements for borrowers, and institute “burden sharing” with loan originators by reducing insurance coverage from the current 100 percent to 50 percent by 2016.

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FOMC Minutes and Economic Projections: Dissent in Both Directions

MishTalk

Participants also described their views regarding the appropriate path of the Federal Reserves balance sheet. Participants anticipated a gradual decline in the unemployment rate over the forecast period; a large majority projected that the unemployment rate would not reach their estimates of its longer-run level before 2016.

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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business

Independently, Michael Porter’s Social Progress Index in 2016 specifically highlighted opportunity in Manizales as significantly higher than both Medellin and Bogota. We taught lending officers how to talk to businesses that were afraid that taking debt onto their balance sheets was riskier than maintaining a flat-growth business.

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Shockingly Bad Fiscal Health of Chicago (and the Financial Engineering Chicago Uses to Hide that Fact)

MishTalk

trillion muni market had puzzled at the true identity of Bond Girl, Hector Negroni, co-founder of New York-based investing firm Fundamental Credit Opportunities, said in a telephone interview. “ It is not a balance sheet test, but a cash flow test. Buyers and traders in the $3.7 This is one of several eligibility criteria.