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The Broken Finance Industry: Credit, Crisis, Malfeasance and Broken Business Models

The credit crisis of 2007-2008 that metastasized into a collapse and nearly caused Great Depression 2.0 was largely created by broken business models based on bad practices, malfeasance, excess leverage and synthetic, structured investment products. We've all learned the hard way that the Finance Industry is more than just another industry but impacts us all. By looking back, perhaps in anger and certainly in dismay and puzzlement, we can understand more about how this all came to pass. And, as a result, more about what to expect because all of these problems remain with us. If you'd like to get a better understanding of how broke the Industry is and what the consequences are this is a place to start.READ»

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Hilbert Problems: Fundamental Performance Questions for Business

In the early part of the last century David Hilbert proposed a set of unsolved questions that shaped the research agenda for math ever since. And the state of the real world as well since many of the areas he suggested had immense ...READ»

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Hey Dude, Where's the Recession Already ?

Not sure how many folks who'll be on the FastCompany community pay attention to the Economic indicators but I'd suggest it'd be very much worth your while to pay a fair amount. Part of the problem is that just going by the ...READ»

Welcome to BizzXceleration II

I've already got a rather extensive blog and while I may post from time-to-time here it's unecessary to duplicate the postings. You can see my blog at: http://bizzxceleration.llinlithgow.com/ Some recent posts that you ...READ»