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Do Our Roads Have to be Built by Government?

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This in-kind “tax” was perfectly acceptable to the farming community and it was able to fend off LAW’s legislation for a number of years. When good-quality roads became commercially important, profit-seeking firms were there to provide them. Inhabitants were expected to devote a few days each year to road upkeep.

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CFOs: What’d happen when CEOs stay in hospitals?

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Highlights of findings Based on data of nearly 13,000 Danish SMEs between 1996 and 2012, Bennedsen and his co-authors find that five-to-seven day hospitalisations sent firm profitability tumbling by 7% in the year of illness, the business school noted. . However, the degree of the dip varied depending on a number of attributes.

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Big Fizzles For Once High-Flying Unicorn Investors

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The problem with large investments – the type that run into the billions of dollars – is that just as gains can be astronomical, the losses can be devastating. There are any number of tech unicorns that have been grounded post-IPO, among them Slack , Lyft, Uber and Peloton. WeWork never made it to market. billion.

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A Cost Benefit Analysis of Work from Home

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Don’t get me wrong – employee satisfaction definitely affects profits. Productivity is the net of all efficiency gains and losses. Conclusion: Work from Home is 4x More Profitable than Hybrid Working. When all costs and benefits are added up, the results are clear: work from home was more profitable than work from office.

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The $70K Dent The Financial Crisis Put In The US Consumer’s Pocketbook

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Six days later, The New York Times reported that Bear Stearns was dangling on the age of bankruptcy and a forced liquidation after it posted a 61 percent drop in net profits as a result of hedge fund losses in the subprime mortgage market. The 70K Lifetime Loss (And Other Interesting Figures About Our Financial Futures).

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10 Tips CFOs Can Use to Put AI in Finance to Work Today

Planful

And as the economic recovery continues and business operations slowly return to normal, the digital surge shows no signs of slowing down. Research from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania suggests that, since AI can lead companies to become more profitable, companies can then hire more employees.

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The Storming of the Bastille: The Reddit Crowd targets the Hedge Funds!

Musings on Markets

This is a “short” sale, and if you are right and the stock price drops, you can buy the shares at the now "discounted" price, return them to the original owner and keep the difference as your profit. In a short squeeze, this cycle speeds up to the point that short sellers have no choice but to exit the position.