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Gold Rises. Recovery In Sight? Really?
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| Gold prices, dollar value and stock prices may not seem to move in an understandable fashion, but a close look may reveal what lies ahead. |
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6 Ways To Recession-Proof Your Business
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| All businesses are having to adjust quickly to some stark new realities.
In this current environment of seesawing markets - surging and then
sagging commodities, volatile currencies - huge gains... then huge drops
in stock prices - it's getting harder than ever to predict what's going
to happen.
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Online Business? Why Do We Need One?
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| A few years ago, the economy was roaring. Stock prices were going up, interest rates were staying low, the online business industry was booming and unemployment was down. A year later and those indicators were all going in opposite direction. It is difficult to know if the turmoil is over but we have to have faith.
We have to be optimistic that the current situation is a short-term one and we have to believe that long-term prospects of growth and good times are just around the corner. But that doesn't mean that there won't be downturns, along the way. We have to ask ourselves: 'are we ready to take advantage of the good as well as the bad times - are we ready to start an online business?'
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Equity Markets are a Farce!
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| What drives an investor to buy a stock? Is it the fundamentals? The technicals? A combination of the two? Well I’m not quite certain anymore. You can basically throw all of the textbook answers out the window when it comes to today’s equity markets. Why do I say that? Because I believe that the only thing that is driving this market is the notion that the government is going to bail out everyone and their brother. |
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All About Earnings
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| In order to see if this market has legs and can continue, we must first take look at what has been causing it to rise in the first place. Quite frankly, the only things causing this market to move up are the hope and prayer that second quarter earnings aren’t going to be absolutely atrocious! |
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IDEA for 2009
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| It's not enough to have a vision you have to dare to push past naysayers and obstacles, expect that you will succeed and act with intention. Many times people who have a great idea fall short of their success not becauase the idea wasn't good but because they didn't follow through with the rest of what it takes to realize their vision. |
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What Kind of Workplace Future?
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| In 1883, as soon as construction ended on the Brooklyn Bridge, the scams started. George C. Parker is credited with originating the idea of selling the Brooklyn Bridge, convincing people they could earn a fortune charging tolls for bridge access. Some erected traffic barriers even as Parker boasted he "sold the Brooklyn Bridge twice a week for years." Eventually he was sentenced to life in prison.
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Attitude Adjustment Time!
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| After reading a recent pragmatic article about how to handle this uncertain economy, I asked myself this question: In light of what we hear about falling stock prices and rising gas prices, what will we do internally to make the best of this time? |
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II. STOCK MARKET AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: THEORETICAL AND ANALYTICAL ISSUES
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| In principle, the stock market is expected to accelerate economic growth by providing a boost
to domestic savings and increasing the quantity and the quality of investment (Singh, 1997). |
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