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...That has the effect of flattering the banks’ books but shifts the risk of default to insurers such as the state-backed Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation....
...German corporates, because their profitability went up as wages went down, so it was business savings that went up and business savings went up simply because wages went down....
...As Erik saw it, Bitcoin’s growth wouldn’t just make him wealthy....
...“Their way of doing business was completely different and it took us a little while to understand what Shiseido could offer them.” To illustrate the differences, Mr Uotani uses himself as an example....
...I won’t look at a cargo ship in quite the same way again....
...When asked how many of his friends worked in the casino industry, el-Amin says: “There’s a cousin who works at Ameristar [another hotel casino] as a house-keeper” – meaning a cleaner....
...As you approach the city of Biloxi, Mississippi, about 80 miles east of New Orleans along the gulf coast, the IP Casino towers over the surrounding landscape like a medieval cathedral, a monument to the...
...As I investigated the causes and patterns of wilful blindness, from our daily lives to the boardrooms of global corporations, I could have confined myself to corporations alone; there’s no shortage of material...
...His young owner is equally determined that he won’t....
...I don’t think there is anything wrong with the MBA programs even in the current economic environment - or at least with the program I’m in (Chicago Booth)....
...“We are at, or very near, a cyclical peak,” argues Steven Kaplan, a professor at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. “Smart people don’t sell when they think they are undervalued.”...
...“We’re all doing things similar to what Brian’s doing, but he’s probably doing it faster because he doesn’t have this nagging pull from the past,” Singleton says, calling Tierney “a refreshing breath of...
...Twenty years later, as his career was winding down, Mr Poynter seemingly had two options: he could sell the paper to a big corporation, as other family-owned papers were increasingly doing....
...In my experience many people are excited at the potential, but can't put together a business case that goes beyond the 'people may be talking about us out there and we can't control it'?...
...A corporation like that pays a lot of attention to how its managers are doing, but his point was they don’t get into individual details.”...
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