"We were both kind of telling Dan, 'Look, the other guy doesn't really see things right, and you probably are going to have to choose, and I think you should fire him.' Dan's response to that, given that his goal was to keep us both, was to send us both off to a corporate shrink".
The flow of money towards British business in the ITEM report would be a dramatic reversal of last year's crackdown on credit, which saw lending to corporates shrink 5%, hitting the lowest level since 2006.
The American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec), one of the most prominent front groups for climate skeptics, saw its corporate membership shrink as businesses stopped funding anti-progress legislative activity.
Deals of $3 billion or more have dried up completely another sign of the times, as corporate bosses shrink from the big transactions that once fed their star status.Those bankers still in a job are keeping their heads low.
In countries where corporate saving rose, labour's share of GDP in the corporate sector shrank, by five percentage points in aggregate.Mr Karabarbounis and Mr Neiman link both rising corporate saving and labour's shrinking share of GDP to a fall in the relative price of investment goods that began in the early 1980s.
The InSchool marketing division is to be cut by about 40 percent, with corporate programs shrinking much more.
Mr. Malpass said that corporate inventories shrank by less than 0.1percentt after two quarters of strong gains.
In the current recession, with corporate budgets shrinking, spending on psychological counseling at work is likely to be curtailed or eliminated, several business psychologists said.
C1 Profits Drop, Spending Rises Corporate profits shrank as the economy barely limped ahead in the first quarter, the government said, but a brightening mood among consumers implied that a recession might be averted.
Either way, the corporate treasurer shrinks his share base and depletes cash that has a low return (maybe 3% aftertax).
If corporate managers aim for reliable cash flow rather than windfall gains in risky projects, the risk premium on corporate bonds will shrink dramatically.
