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We Tracked Every Dollar 235 U.S. Households Spent for a Year, and Found Widespread Financial Vulnerability

Harvard Business

The lack of access to stable, predictable cash flows is the hard-to-see source of much of today’s economic insecurity. Financial Diaries (USFD), an unprecedented study to collect detailed cash flow data for U.S. But this close-up look at cash flows suggests new routes to helping families. households.

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Setting Up a Foundation for Consulting Success

Successful Independent Consulting

If you can, pay your health insurance with this same card since it too will be tax deductible. Use this credit card for as many expenses as you can, including recurring expenses like your cell phone and internet service and health insurance. Determine if you need business insurance or need to increase your personal coverage.

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Why Life Insurers and Asset Managers Must Join Forces to Win

BCG

Article Thursday, December 15, 2016 Life insurers are feeling the squeeze. In their efforts to adapt to this upside-down world, life insurers are focusing on optimizing their investment strategies and operations. The industry’s overall business growth has stalled, and investment income has become a critical mainstay.

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China Faces "Minsky Moment" on Ponzi Financing

MishTalk

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth to 5.0% There is evidence that this debt growth has become excessive and non-productive. Based on our analysis, our baseline case is that China may slow from the current level of 7.7% over the next two years. trillion of private sector debt to a $9.7 trillion GDP.

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

Harvard Business

Similarly, considering greater accruals (which represent the difference between reported income and operating cash flows) to measure short-term orientation has its difficulties. It assumes that a smaller proportion of cash flows in earnings indicates a myopic firm. Corporate culture.

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Small and Young Businesses Are Especially Vulnerable to Extreme Weather

Harvard Business

First, small businesses tend to be more productive than larger ones and may be especially unlikely to invest in risk management that diverts resources from production. In essence, the fortunate firms took on more debt, committing the business to a stream of cash flows and expenses far into the future to pay for their losses.

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How U.S. Hospitals and Health Systems Can Reverse Their Sliding Financial Performance

Harvard Business

For the past decade, the consensus strategy among hospital and health-system leaders has been to achieve scale in regional markets via mergers and acquisitions, to make medical staffs employees, and to assume more financial risk in insurance contracts and sponsored health plans. All these problems contribute to diminished cash flows.

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