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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

percent in 2004, a decline of 1.1 By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. Between 1995 and its peak in March 2000, the Nasdaq Composite stock market index rose 800%, only to fall 740% from its peak by October 2002, giving up all its gains during the bubble.

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Soda Wars Summer

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This marketing promotion seeks to recreate the success of the brand’s 2014–2015 U.S. The Ad Age story notes that it will also be supported by TV advertising, social media efforts and a summer-long “experiential” tour. which expands a marketing effort that launched last year across Russia, Canada and Thailand.

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

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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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11 Lessons From Startup Chapter 11s

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Coda Automotive was an early player in the electric vehicle market, an early failure, and a great example of why being early is not always an advantage — even if the future your company envisions is probably the right one. Another, larger problem was that the market for electric cars did not take off the way that Coda expected.

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Guest Post: Financial Markets and Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

Now, if Mother Nature would cooperate… Volatility The markets have been incredibly volatile in the first quarter of 2018. The spike in volatility was a wake-up call to every investor and market participant that thought “vols” would stay historically low forever. This may be the understatement of the year! Welcome to 2018!

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The Curious Case For Breaking Up Tech Giants

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And that we should do that not because they’re tax evaders or evil — all things he said they, like all of us, are. Census Bureau likes to tell — that 92 percent of all sales still happen in a physical store — the largest retailers have lost hundreds of billions in market cap in a few short years. In 2004 in the U.S.,

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

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SPOT Watches, Microsoft (2004). MSN was no one’s favorite web portal, and by 2004 there were many better ways to get stock quotes, weather, and other information than through this clunky watch. They didn’t bring it to market solo, either, relying on Bandai’s brand recognition in the gaming world.