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Groupon Teams Up With Redeam To Expand Worldwide Experiences

PYMNTS

The attraction and activity operators it serves include Walt Disney World, BigBus Tours, Boston Harbor Cruises, National Geographic Encounter: Ocean Odyssey and the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. Groupon, founded in 2008 in Chicago, is a digital marketplace where people can get discounts on things to do, see, eat and buy.

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Stimulus Relief: Less Spending, More Saving

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In 2001, the government gave most households up to $600 ($875 adjusted for inflation) and in 2008 handed out up to $1,200 per household. And in those cases, Jonathan Parker, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told the Boston Globe , the attempt was pretty successful.

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FinCEN Steps up Efforts to Protect Against the Six Biggest Threats to the U.S. Financial System

Abrigo

Blanco discussed the organization’s active approach toward addressing the top financial threats to our financial system, our national security, and our communities and families. FinCEN is committed to addressing compliance failures that put our financial system and national security at risk. The 12 major U.S.

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Guest Post: First Quarter Economic Commentary by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

At least we are not in Boston. Here in the US, short term rates have been at zero since December, 2008 and countless rounds of forward guidance and trillions of dollars of bonds bought by the Fed in QE programs have failed to push our growth rate much above +2.0%. We need a change of seasons! I think not. Only they know for sure.

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The Top 20 Venture Capitalists

CB Insights

He received his MBA in 1993 from UT Austin before joining Credit Suisse First Boston as an Equity Research Analyst, where he focused on computer hardware and software. After nearly four-and-a-half years with Google and some investment experience, Brian joined Founders Fund as a Principal in 2008. Operating Location: Boston, MA.

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Retail’s Small Business Crisis

PYMNTS

Things went off the rails, not surprisingly, in 2008 — courtesy of the financial crisis. More businesses opened than closed — until 2008. In the aftermath of 2008, only 20 counties — most of them rimming major cities and tech hubs — drove 50 percent of small business formation. The mix of these businesses is also very different.

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The Mother List of All Banking Books

Jeff For Banks

A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold 2008 Cordelia Frances Biddle Biddle, Cordelia Frances Biddle, Jackson, and a Nation in Turmoil: The Infamous Bank War 2021 Alan S. 2008 Richard P. The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath 2015 Peter L. Bernstein Bernstein, Peter L. Blinder Blinder, Alan S.

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