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The Future Of Business Travel

The Horizons Tracker

For instance, it’s well known that there are various benefits to communicating in person, with even a simple handshake often crucial in forging a bond with someone that underpins cooperation. This is due in large part to the clear advantage of conducting business interactions face to face. Commercial importance. the researchers say. “We

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Markets: Understand the Present to Forecast the Future (Part 2)

Coaching Tip

Let's give them not only the Elliott Wave Theorist and what I'm talking about socionoimcally and in the markets, but let's also give them your commentary in terms of stocks, bonds and everything else.' Alexandra : Well, I know you're a busy guy, so thanks again for sitting down and chatting today. Steve : Thank you. .

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Reason Why 2013 Stock Prices are in the Stratosphere

Coaching Tip

Let''s normalize this indicator to GDP and see what we have. Margin debt as a percentage of annual GDP is still 10 times the 1974 level. Bonds No Safe Haven from Stock Market Risk. That is a big reason why stock prices are in the stratosphere. You might think that there''s a lot more money around, thereby justifying the rise.

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Three Reasons the Euro Zone Deal Won't Work

Harvard Business Review

Yields on sovereign bonds fell immediately following the deal's announcement. For example, the generic yield on Ireland's nine year sovereign bonds fell from 7.1 The total bond stock of Spain and Italy is approaching 3 trillion-with-a-T Euros. And market participants were initially thrilled. in one day, an unprecedented drop.

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Fixing the Euro Zone and Reducing Inequality, Without Fleecing the Rich

Harvard Business Review

Interest rates of zero meant that central banks took to targeting asset prices – stocks and bonds – to boost spending. Quantitative easing (QE) by the Fed, Bank of England and the Bank of Japan, has involved asset purchases equivalent to more than 20% of GDP. This policy is also fairer.

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Reinhart, Rogoff, and How the Macroeconomic Sausage Is Made

Harvard Business Review

I couldn''t help but think back to that as controversy erupted this week over Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff''s oft-cited three-year-old finding that economic growth plummets when a country''s debt-to-GDP ratio exceeds 90%. growth in countries with debt/GDP of more than 90%, they came up with 2.2%

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Fighting Inflation, Ruining Economies

Harvard Business Review

debt was 98% of GDP, its deficit 10% of GDP; Spanish debt was 69% of GDP, its deficit 8.5% To cover this deficit, Mexico had to borrow 7% of GDP a year. Even government bonds were yielding some 10% annually in dollars. Why can the U.S. The difference isn't their debt and deficits. In 2011, U.S. Imports surged.

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