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Retirement and Your Finances – From the Women on Business Archives

Women on Business

The start of a new year is a great time to re-evaluate your finances and retirement savings plan. With that in mind, I thought it would also be a good time to take a trip through the Women on Business archives to find some great articles about retirement and finances that you might have missed.

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Did Austerity Politics Lead To A Rise In Crime?

The Horizons Tracker

Many governments implemented so-called austerity measures in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis in an attempt to get public finances back in order after large borrowing was implemented to bail out financial institutions. “Second, we document a net welfare loss from austerity 1.0—the

Politics 126
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Personal Share Holdings Impact Entrepreneurial Behavior

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers analyzed the stock portfolios of entrepreneurs during the 2008 financial crisis. The sensitivity of younger businesses to their owners’ investment setbacks can be attributed to their reliance on a single source of financing. They used Norway as their Petri dish as income and investing data is widely available.

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The Link Between Unemployment Benefits And Entrepreneurship

The Horizons Tracker

With borrowing becoming more costly, businesses might struggle to finance investments and production, leading to cost-cutting measures, including layoffs. While not alarmingly high, this is the highest rate since September 2021, during the second year of the COVID pandemic, when it reached 4.4%.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Panic of 1907 vs Great Recession of 2008

Strategy Driven

He went on to describe the similarities between the banking crisis of 1907 – the one that inspired the formation of the Federal Reserve – and the more recent 2008 financial crisis. By 2008, losses from these portfolios were causing banks to fail. Bernanke said. In 1907, the fire started when F. Augustus Heinze and C.F.

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Best Leadership Blogs 2010 | N2Growth Blog

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But My Business Is Different… | N2Growth Blog

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