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

Coaching Tip

He wanted to step back a bit from the day-to-day market commentary and incorporate the views of socionomics into what he was writing about. 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.'

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The Future Of Business Travel

The Horizons Tracker

With conferences also heading online, the business travel market has ground to a halt as people have learned to communicate without jumping on a plane to do so. We’ve been puzzled by the fact that business travel has been growing faster than world GDP, despite the widespread adoption of alternatives like Skype, FaceTime, email, etc.,”

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Reason Why 2013 Stock Prices are in the Stratosphere

Coaching Tip

And, as you probably know, leverage can also move the stock market. In the July-August Elliott Wave Theorist , Robert Prechter discussed the role of leverage in sending the market to new price highs. Let''s normalize this indicator to GDP and see what we have. You have nothing to lose and exclusive market insights to gain.

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Three Reasons the Euro Zone Deal Won't Work

Harvard Business Review

And market participants were initially thrilled. 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. Is that a sound investment?

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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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4 Things Your Innovation Efforts Shouldn’t Focus On

Harvard Business Review

GDP in the 1970s to 0.78% today. Deepening the science behind the business, focusing on discovering higher-value market segments through new products and in new industries, and looking to expand globally will all keep the top line growing. Investment in fundamental science, the R, has dropped from more than 2% of U.S. Related Video.