MishTalk

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

In addition to holding its benchmark rate at 0.25%, the ECB also left the rate it pays on bank deposits unchanged at zero. The ECB balance sheet has plummeted to 23pc of eurozone GDP from a peak of 32pc in July 2012. And of course the US must avoid a rise in the dollar, and Japan must avoid a rise in the Yen. in December.

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Balance Sheet Banking Retail Policies 72

MishTalk

JULY 11, 2014

Historical evidence shows that this rarely happens following a balance sheet recession. Such episodes often coincide with banking crises, which in turn tend to go hand in hand with much deeper recessions – balance sheet recessions – than those that characterise the average business cycle.

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Balance Sheet Financial Banking Policies 74

MishTalk

DECEMBER 26, 2014

While the benchmark deposit rate was officially lowered from 3.00% to 2.75%, the upper limit that banks can pay for deposits remained unchanged at 3.30%. It may seem strange to have both a benchmark rate and a “floating range” that establishes a cap, instead of just setting a cap, as was the case until very recently.

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Banking System Benchmarking Finance 71

MishTalk

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

With its balance sheet totalling nearly 1.6 and Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said he could now cut the benchmark rate below the current 0.5 Economic Distortions That's actually a balanced synopsis by Bloomberg as far as it went. The big Swiss banks passed on some of the pain from the Swiss central bank’s -0.75

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2016

My guess is that while a poor balance sheet might cause restless sleep, it’s the thought of an incorrectly reported balance sheet that brings on night terrors. I’m not against benchmarking and norming. While benchmarks are useful inputs for compensation decisions, they shouldn’t be a straitjacket.

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Benchmarking Company Balance Sheet Intellectual Property 36

MishTalk

JANUARY 3, 2014

Had I suggested in 2007 that the Fed balance sheet expansion of $75 billion a month would have been considered "tightening" people would have thought I was nuts. Total credit in the economy (total social financing) showed a 40 per cent rise in November over the prior month and is on course for growth this year of almost 20 per cent.

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