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A Decline in Personal Savings

TrustBank

The BEA calculates the personal saving rate by subtracting taxes from personal income to arrive at “disposable personal income” and then subtracts personal outlays. By the 1990’s, improvements in technology and further changes to securities regulations made it easier for corporate customers to access financial markets directly.

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

The dot-com bubble recession began in March 2001 and lasted only 8 months. percent of all jobs in 2001 to 11.3 By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. We knew there was tremendous hubris in the subprime market. High-tech employment fell from 12.1

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

CB Insights

In a deal that aimed to open the Chinese coal markets, US heavy-equipment behemoth Caterpillar paid $677M in 2012 to acquire ERA Mining Machinery Ltd. The Chinese coal market is one of the biggest in the world and this deal looked like easy money. a leading producer of hydraulic coal-mine roof supports in China. Google and Motorola.

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24 Lessons From Warren Buffett’s Annual Letters To Shareholders

CB Insights

It also owns 50 subsidiary companies that have 200 more subsidiaries themselves, including Geico (acquired in 1996), Dairy Queen (1997), and Fruit of the Loom (2001). You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.” ( 2001 ). Market volatility. In spring 2001, Cisco’s shareholders had lost a total of 28.6%

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Tracking The Trends That Shaped 2020’s The Digital-First Economy

PYMNTS

This tracker brought NCR Corporation together with Avidia Bank and was notable for the stat that showed that one-third of bank customers said they would visit physical branches more often if they could compete with the ease of mobile banking, and banks are deploying or workshopping a number of technologies to make this convenience a reality.

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17 Of The Biggest Startup Frauds Of All Time

CB Insights

The problem was that Theranos’ proprietary blood-testing technology was completely fictitious. Holmes’ claims about Theranos’ blood-testing technology weren’t just exaggerations or selective interpretations of clinical research data; they were quite literally impossible. Total Funding: $2.5M.

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The 225 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (Aug 2021)

Fintech Labs Insights

Their total market value is now $2.1 Total market value = $2.11 168t ($1.3B): USA crypto tax software provider TaxBit. 168t ($1.3B): USA crypto tax software provider TaxBit. Ant Technology. Plaid Technologies. Mercury Technologies. In August, we added 17 new unicorns for a total of 225. Value Date.