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5 Methods CEOs Can Use To Combat Inflation

Inflation is a common economic challenge that can have a significant impact on businesses and their bottom line. As a CEO, it is important to understand how inflation affects your company and ways you can take steps to mitigate its effects.
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Fears of Recession? Here Is What You Should Be Doing

Jun 28, 2022 by ITR Economics 0 Comments
We have been hearing a lot from our community about whether they should be buying, selling, hiring, firing, etc. Nobody is quite sure what they should be doing. First and foremost, just take a moment to breathe. Fears of a recession are broadcast all over the media, with factors like higher interest rates, inflation, and the decline of the stock market weighing heavily on everyone's minds. We teamed up with ITR Economics to get the firm's take on the economy and help people and businesses plan ahead for the future.
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What Bass Fishing Guides And Fireworks Retailers Can Teach Us About Where The Economy Is Headed

As consumer demand begins to soften, ensuring the accuracy of your forward forecasting is more essential than ever. Bass fishing is big business in Missouri. People come from all over the world to come and fish our lakes during the peak summertime tourism season. But when I went out to the lake recently, I witnessed a different story. Soaring gas prices mean people aren’t running their boats as much. I can’t remember another time when I hadn’t seen a single other boat out on the lake in June like I did that day.
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Inflation and Your Employees

May 18, 2022 by ITR Economics 2 Comments
Are you prepared for the inflationary pressure on the US economy? ITR Economics is sharing resources to help both businesses and employees position themselves to bypass the negative effects of inflation.
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Inflation and a Pricing Strategy For Success

Apr 28, 2022 by ITR Economics 0 Comments
Concerned about inflation? There are facts supporting the assertion that consumers will most likely be able to manage ongoing inflation and drive economic activity to new levels in 2022–23.
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The 2030s Great Depression: You Can Prosper in the Age of Decline

Apr 26, 2022 by ITR Economics 2 Comments
“A high probability exists that the decade spanning 2030–2040 will be one of lost opportunities, great economic distress, lost fortunes, deep regrets, and despair over what might have been. Protect yourself: Plan for this future…”
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3 Things to Consider During Times of Inflation

Prices are going up. We've all noticed it, and it's maybe even got us a little panicked. So, when can we expect to see inflation start slowing down? Well, expert economists are expecting to enter a period of disinflation and slowed growth in 2022 and 2023. Below we have listed ways economists are saying inflation will impact spending and business growth — something all business leaders should take a look at.
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How To Stay On Top of Runaway Inflation — When It Comes To Raising Prices, Timing Is Everything

Any time you write something and send it out into the world, it can be difficult to know if anyone paid any attention to it. While it’s always gratifying to see how many people hit the “Like” button on a blog, or how many views it gets, we think the real mark of whether a piece hits home or not is when people take the time to write comments or questions. When you get those, you know you might have hit a nerve.
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Our approach to running a company was developed to help close one of the biggest gaps in business: the gap between managers and employees. We call our open-book approach The Great Game of Business. What lies at the heart of The Game is a very simple proposition: The best, most efficient, most profitable way to operate a business is to give everybody in the company a voice in saying how the company is run and a stake in the outcome. Let us teach you how to develop a culture of ownership, where employees think, act and feel like owners.