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Beyond the Core was recognized by The Economist as one of the top five business and economic books in 2004.

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Leader - Chivée's newly - released book, Crossing The Thinnest Line, argues that diversity is the single most undervalued and underleveraged economic asset in the US today.

And will the economic impact — in memorabilia, baby items, tourism and even booking fees — of the arrival of this unnamed child, the «spare to the heir,» be anywhere near what it was for Prince George's birth?

And, what we're trying to gently push back in the book is the economics of the large - scale bundled subscription model that Netflix is pursuing, [where what the] economic theory says is you can profitably make things in a bundle that wouldn't be profitable if you sold them separately.

Author and CEO of HR Capital Source Jac Fitz - enz said in his 2010 book titled The New HR Analytics: Predicting the Economic Value of Your Company's Human Capital Investments, «Talent managers» ability to maximize HR's value is now married to their ability to talk in understandable terms.»

On November 27, 2008, Flaherty gave a fiscal update to parliament that took note of the economic storm clouds in the distance, but confidently suggested that the federal government's books would remain in the black in the year to come.

Laurence C. Smith, a UCLA earth sciences professor and author of The World in 2050, a 2010 book that examines how demographics, natural resources, globalization and climate change will transfer economic might to the north, says, «In Canada in particular, all four factors line up very powerfully.&raquin 2050, a 2010 book that examines how demographics, natural resources, globalization and climate change will transfer economic might to the north, says, «In Canada in particular, all four factors line up very powerfully.&raquIn Canada in particular, all four factors line up very powerfully.&raquin particular, all four factors line up very powerfully.»

«In these economic times, every order book is important and I believe this is not a small order book,» said Kurt Wee, President of the Association of Small & Medium Enterprises.

The book's short chapters address the economic underpinnings and challenges of everything from climate change to global governance to the imbalance between savings and investment in China.

Twice Pulitzer - nominated, history professor Brands has elsewhere given book - length treatment to some of the threads he combines in this account of the 35 years that gave birth to the modern economic order.

When choosing countries to invest in, Langham looks at the price - to - book ratio of the national stock indexes rather than price - to - earnings, as it's difficult to predict profits in a weak economic environment.

The reason fairness would require that this ratio be equal to one is that, as argued by the Italian economist Luigi Pasinetti in his 1981 book, Structural Change and Economic Growth: A Theoretical Essay on the Dynamics of the Wealth of Nations, a fair interest rate is such that the purchasing power of one hour of labour stays constant through time even when its monetary equivalent is lent or borrowed.

Chrystia Freeland, The Globe and Mailâ $ ™ s candidate in Toronto Centre, recently wrote a book about inequality (which I have not yet read) and is supposed to â $ œbring fresh thinking to the Liberal Partyâ $ ™ s economic team.â $ She has already attracted a few jabs from right - wingers Terence Corcoran and William Watson.

At its current valuation of ~ $ 67 / share, HLF has a price to economic book value ratio (price - to - EBV) of 1.2 That ratio means that the market expects only 20 % growth in NOPAT for the remainder of HLF's existence.

It increased to 16.0 % in 2009 - 10, primarily due to the impact of the stimulus measures in the Economic Action Plan and the booking of one - time liabilities.

The current 0.9 price - to - economic book value ratio (PEBV) means TEN is priced for a permanent 10 % decline in after - tax profits (NOPAT).

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of MesoEconomic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesoeconomic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

These included overly optimistic economic growth and oil price assumptions; cutting the contingency reserve by two - thirds; selling shares in GM at fire sale prices; raiding EI revenues; and even booking «savings» from unilateral changes to federal employees» sick leave benefits.

b) Price to Economic Book Value measures the growth expectations embedded in the prices of the stocks in sector / industry.

«The Great Reflation is by far the best economic and investment book that I have read in the last ten years.

PERIES: Michael has a new book out, J Is for Junk Economics: A Survivor's Guide to Economic Vocabulary in an Age of Deception.

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Michael has a new book out January 20 - J is for Junk Economics: A Survivor's Guide to Economic Vocabulary in an Age of Deception.

Figure 1 shows this value - destroying behavior in action for GE (GE) by comparing between the amount of money spent buying back shares and the price to economic book value (PEBV), a measure of the growth expectations embedded in the stock price.

I have explained elsewhere some of the reasons that determine whether a country's debt is «excessively high», and I hope formally to list these reasons more fully in my next book, but the key is the gap that is created between projected debt - servicing costs and the projected revenues earmarked to service the debt when an economic entity suffers an unexpected surge in debt or an unexpected decline in growth.

Prof. Hudson's 1972 book on Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire was widely quoted in Russian studies of international financial relations in the 1970s.

His books include East Asia Visions, Reshaping Economic Geography in East Asia, and International Migration and Development in East Asia and the Pacific.

In his book The Man and His Wonderful Shaving Device — King C. Gillette, biographer Russell B. Adams, Jr. noted, «King C. Gillette had thought he might be remembered as one of history's social and economic reformers.

On Wednesday — while trying on a new pair of budget shoes in Toronto — he said the blueprint will «try to create that balance» between promoting economic growth and balancing the books by 2015.

In the book David Morgan and I co-authored, Second Chance: How to Make and Keep Big Money from the Coming Gold and Silver Shock - Wave, we discuss the «New Silk Road» this way:... the plan, described as an «economic partnership map with -LSB-...]

A portion of the authors net profits from the book launch was donated to Green America, a not - for - profit organization founded in 1982 (as Co-op America) with a mission to harness economic powerthe strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplaceto create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society.

Economic Value Management has been selected as a Featured Book Recommendation or «Recommended Read» by numerous publications including, among others, Harvard Business School's HBS Working Knowledge, CEO Refresher, Directors Monthly, Global CEO, The Corporate Board, The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, Valuation Issues, On Philanthropy, Accounting Today, Cost Management, and The Journal of Accounting and Finance.

Also according to the Fed's Beige Book released this week, economic growth continued to show improvement in January and early February as consumer spending picked up [see 3 Economic Charts Bears Love To economic growth continued to show improvement in January and early February as consumer spending picked up [see 3 Economic Charts Bears Love To Economic Charts Bears Love To Ignore].

His many books include Swap: How Trade Works with Philip Levy, a concise introduction to the principles of world economics, and Telecoms and the Huawei conundrum: Chinese foreign direct investment in the United States, an AEI Economic Studies analysis that explores the case of Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei and its commitment to long - term investment in the US.

In another of your books, Avoiding the Fall, you mentioned that you expected that Chinese economic growth would not be steady in the future, but that China would likely avoid a hard landinIn another of your books, Avoiding the Fall, you mentioned that you expected that Chinese economic growth would not be steady in the future, but that China would likely avoid a hard landinin the future, but that China would likely avoid a hard landing.

PEF people are not the only ones who correctly anticipated some of our recent economic and fiscal events. Jamie Galbraith also saw a lot of this coming in his book The Predator State.

As MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee put it more recently than Keynes in their 2014 book about automation's economic impact, The Second Machine Age: «Our generation has inherited more opportunities to transform the world than any other.

In this episode we discuss the ancient history of debt cancellation, the untold life of Jesus as an economic justice activist, and more largely Professor Hudson's forthcoming book,»... and forgive them their debts,» out in summer.In this episode we discuss the ancient history of debt cancellation, the untold life of Jesus as an economic justice activist, and more largely Professor Hudson's forthcoming book,»... and forgive them their debts,» out in summer.in summer...

This book is an aid in gaining understanding of economic history.

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In the past few months, the price to economic book value (zero - growth value) ratio of SPY reached 2.6, which is what we consider to be a Dangerous level.

The Dow posted a triple digit point gain while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq all gained as the Federal Reserve's Beige Book indicated that economic growth remained healthy in most U.S. regions.

Even if bears are right and Verizon is unable to compete in the price wars of the mobile industry, Verizon's current economic book value, or no growth value, is $ 61 / share, which represents 33 % upside from the current price.

Some regions of the U.S. are confronting labor shortages in construction and other high - skill fields, according to the Federal Reserve's «beige book» survey of economic conditions.

«To succeed in the Gig Economy, we need to create a financially flexible life of lower fixed costs, higher savings, and much less debt,» Diane Mulcahy, a senior analyst at the Kauffman Foundation and a lecturer at Babson College, writes in her book «The Gig Economy,» which is part economic argument and part how - to guide.

At its current price of ~ $ 32 / share, Cisco has a price to economic book value (PEBV) of just 0.9, which implies that the market expects a permanent 10 % decline in after - tax profit (NOPAT).

For a more in depth analysis of our financial problems and the inherent dangers they pose for the U.S. economy and U.S. dollar denominated investments, read my new book «Crash Proof: How to Profit from the Coming Economic Collapse.»

The Beige Book maintained that economic activity across all the districts expanded at a modest to moderate pace in July and August, with some concerns in the auto industry.

FreedomFest was founded in 2002 by my friend Mark Skousen, then - president of the Foundation for Economic Education and author of several books, including one of my favorites, The Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes.

At the same time, Ludwig von Mises published an article in 1920 called «Economic Calculation in the Socialist Society» and a 1922 book, Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis, arguing that comprehensive central planning of the economy would be disastrous because central planners lacked market prices and market institutions to inform their actions, hence they would waste resources on a vast and even fatal scale.