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...So far, we are suffering financial casualties rather than full-blown collapse, a credit squeeze rather than crunch....
...At the time Powell blagged that research had shown this to be the optimal shape, only to later admit this was “nonsense”....
...Victrex’s assets are running at below optimal levels....
...Optimal and independent monetary policy, it turns out, is one of the first economic casualties of Brexit. chris.giles@ft.com...
...Mr Stumpf thus becomes the highest-profile casualty of a slow-burning scandal that escalated five weeks ago, when two regulators combined with the city of Los Angeles to force a record $185m fine....
...This high profile casualty of the trade war won’t go unnoticed among multinational companies. Garry Young, NIESR Chelsea will win the cup....
...The comments are a sign of tensions over the optimal structure for AIG, which was kept alive by a $180bn government bailout at the height of the financial crisis....
...The three banks also grappled with the optimal pace to shrink their bloated asset bases and rein in costs without losing money in fire sales and damaging their franchises....
...Designing products, setting optimal prices and reaching the best prospects among potential customers are turning into data-driven exercises. But it is also throwing up disruptive new businesses....
...The search for optimal arrangements in something as vital to the health and prosperity of coming generations worldwide requires a lively debate based on application of the classic principles of scientific...
...While this is understandable in cultural terms, in business terms, it is non-optimal....
...Military action, after all, is only one prong in an optimal policy response....
...An unfortunate casualty of the global economic crisis has been the European Central Bank’s summer holiday....
...The outcome could determine whether the system is robust enough to survive another financial storm without casualties on the scale of Lehman Brothers and without the need for governments to spend thousands...
...It was all so much harder than it had looked on Casualty. Press too gently, and the heart stays inert. Bash too hard, and you maim the patient....
...“I am forced to conclude that the army’s plans for their use dooms them to sub-optimal employment,” says Gen Deptula....
...The study looked at 350 hi-tech companies funded by VC and found a startlingly high casualty rate among owner-managers: about 10 per cent were replaced or forced out in the first 20 months of the business...
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