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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

To you, manage your interest rate risk. By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. So, to summarize my lessons learned from every crisis in the last 35 years: - Manage your interest rate risk; - Meteoric rises are often accompanied by gravitational falls.

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

CB Insights

in losses, declare bankruptcy at Westinghouse, and eventually to sell the Westinghouse unit to Brookfield Asset Management. That skyrocketing popularity is likely what made Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp think it was worth spending $580M to acquire the social network. 32) in August of 2002. Toshiba was forced to write off $6.3B

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When Corporate Innovation Goes Bad — The 116 Biggest Product Failures Of All Time

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Bikes, Smith and Wesson (2002). It was reportedly lemon lime flavored and astoundingly managed to stay in production until 2008 when it was discontinued in the US. HD DVD’s tech specs were put in place in 2002, but the format wasn’t abandoned fully until 2008. Xybernaut Poma Wearable PC, Xybernaut and Hitachi (2002).

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From Alibaba to Zynga: 21 Of The Best VC Bets Of All Time And What We Can Learn From Them

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It wouldn’t be until almost exactly one year later that investors really started flocking to the early social media startup. He positioned himself on both sides of the Groupon deal through various privately-owned investment vehicles and management roles. round, which put Facebook’s valuation at $468M. of the company.

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