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Wise Economic Decision Making

Coaching Tip

percentage points from GDP, based on the average of 2010's first three quarters. Their intricate mathematical models largely failed to predict the 2008 financial crisis. Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, January 17, 2011. In 2005, housing accounted for 6.1 percent of economic activity in the U.S.

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Women and the economy: an opportunity for growth

Strategy Driven

As Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund states: if women were employed at the same rate as men, GDP would increase by 5 percent in the United States, by 9 percent in Japan and by 27 percent in India. Women have a few powerful tools to find their way to success and leadership.

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What Has the Eurozone Learned from the Financial Crisis?

Harvard Business Review

But the real tragedy happened later: a timid recovery during 2010-11 was followed by a second recession starting in the third quarter of 2011, from which Europe did not start recovering until 2015. By December 16, 2008, interest rates were close to 0% in the U.S. Yet the place where the crisis had originated, the U.S., What went wrong?

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