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FAQ – Bank Failures and Is This 2008 All Over Again?

Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

This caused a fear over the weekend that we might see a repeat of 2007-2009. This explainer will lay out what happened, what the response was and why this is not like 2007-2009. Is this like 2007-2009? What happened at Silicon Valley Bank (and the other banks that failed): An old-fashioned bank run! In our view, no.

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Optimize for authentic relationships, not bluster

This is going to be BIG.

More importantly, I know them both for a while--Hilary since August of 2007 through twitter and, of course, getting to work with her at Path 101, and Kara since I used to e-mail her about her Boomtown columns in the WSJ over ten years ago. They're awesome and I'd show up to hear them speak anywhere. How did this startup come to be?

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Ontario Government Launches Governance Review of OMERS

Pension Pulse

Let me take a step back here and tell you that after I was wrongfully dismissed from PSP Investments back in October 2006, the government of Canada ( Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat ) hired me to conduct a full governance review of the federal public service pension plan in the fall of 2007.

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Aswath Damodaran on the Difference Between Pricing a Company and Valuing One, and More

The Motley Fool

A company is a legal entity. It makes consultants and bankers really rich, but shareholders really poor. It took accountants about 18 years and in 2007 or eight, they decided, finally, if you gave options or restricted stock to your employees, that had to be treated as an expense and lowered income. Let me take two examples.

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Is the DoorDash Wage Change Good for the Company?

The Motley Fool

A real estate consultant published some data from this company called AllTheRooms saying, Airbnb revenue is down by 50%, and in markets like Austin and Phoenix, there's competing data from another company, AirDNA, saying the revenue is only down around 3%. He's been at the helm since 2007. versus 9.6% for the S&P 500.

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Is The Canadian Model Really Under Siege?

Pension Pulse

Historical perspective Legitimacy is one of the foundational elements of the Canadian system and was first canvassed in a seminal 1976 book, The Unseen Revolution: How pension fund socialism came to America by the management consultant and author Peter Drucker. It basically created the legal framework for this new organisation.

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Transcript: Anat Admati

The Big Picture

So, until the financial crisis of 2007 and 2009 or however you go — you actually time it, I was in this finance bubble. ADMATI: And so, now, that’s my current interest, which is the corporation, as a legal person, they are not a set of assets owned by shareholders. So, that was that and then comes the financial crisis.

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