Mr. Thielen runs Bertelsmann's vast printing business, which generates $3.5 billion a year in sales but is worlds away from the creative, hit-driven businesses that have become the company's focus.
In spite of another year of relentless cost-cutting, layoffs, and the shuttering and sale of the vast printing plants where the company's flagship newspapers were once produced, profit, in reality, was down a "solid" 86% on the year before, to a wafer-thin $26m, one of the worst results on record.
Others warn that the vast money-printing programmes by central banks known as quantitative easing have flooded markets with easy money and propped up asset prices while little has been done in the last seven years to address fundamental economic problems.
It has over 1,000 employees and 18 photography studios at its French HQ, housed in the vast, former printing factory for the Le Monde newspaper.
The company now has over 1,000 employees and 18 photography studios at its French HQ, housed in the vast, former printing factory for the Le Monde newspaper.
But recently, Barnes & Noble has had to contend with Amazon.com, which has led on e-books and whose vast selection of print books is available online.
Nudging prices off their downward course and getting them to rise again would require the Bank of Japan to print vast amounts of yen.
To offset this, the Bank of Japan would have to print vast amounts of yen in the hope of refloating the economy on a pool of liquidity while allowing the yen itself to sink.
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