Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The Great Recession of 2007 to 2009 was under way. That strengthened investment banks’ balance sheets by forcing them to scale back and to change the nature of the risks they take. Fees earned from advising companies and helping them issue debt are up 25%, and now account for one-quarter of the industry’s earnings.

Banking 28

Banking Balance Sheet Financial Finance 28

MishTalk

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Trucking Industry Entering a Profit-Killing Era of Overcapacity? As surface transportation’s peak period ends for the year, and trucking eyes the traditionally slowest time for the industry as first quarter 2016, economic signals are, at best, mixed. Third-quarter Gross Domestic Product grew at a 1.5 in October from 50.2

Balance Sheet 28

Balance Sheet Banking Study Policies 28

MishTalk

MARCH 17, 2014

This model rests on an understanding of how distortions in the savings rates of different countries have driven the great trade and balance-sheet distortions with which we are wrestling today, just as they have in most previous global crises, including those of the 1870s, the 1930s, and the 1970s. It does so in two ways.

Banking 67

Banking Real Estate Productivity Policies 67

Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

Scholars from a number of fields have offered explanations for this transition, including globalization, technological change, declining unionization, heightened product market competition, and the rise of finance. And improved worker productivity and lower turnover frequently more than offsets these firms’ higher labor rates.

Marketing 28

Marketing Balance Sheet System Training 28

MishTalk

JULY 10, 2015

Here too, however, the signal is not entirely clear , as other factors such as longer-run trends in productivity growth also generally influence the growth of compensation. Outlook for the Economy The latest estimates show that both real GDP and industrial production actually edged down in the first quarter of this year.

Policies 28

Policies Balance Sheet Productivity Energy 28

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. Ironically, Merkel immediately followed up with " The German government would not tolerate a weakening of German industry or job losses ". Here we are.

Conference 74

Conference Banking Government Balance Sheet 74