Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Many an economics and finance course later, I see that the layers of complexities to the 2008 financial crisis are innumerable. I’ll try to summarize some of the causes and historical contexts in this article to provide a greater-than-Big-Short level analysis. We were shocked, how could no one have seen the collapse coming?

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MishTalk

AUGUST 7, 2013

Trend Analysis. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Thanks to an over-flowing cup of Fed liquidity, corporate debt maturities have not only been pushed out in time but have risen in their nominal outstandings as cheap financing was too good to ignore (especially for those firms on the bubble of failure).

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MishTalk

JULY 11, 2014

It could represent a hidden vulnerability, especially if backed by domestic currency cash flows derived from overextended sectors, such as property, or used for carry trades or other forms of speculative position-taking. Financing problems of non-financial corporations in EMEs can also feed into the banking system.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

To help provide a better factual base for this debate, MGI, working with McKinsey colleagues from our Strategy & Corporate Finance practice as well as the team at FCLT Global, began last fall to devise a way to systemically measure short-termism and long-termism at the company level. Earnings quality: Accruals as a share of revenue.

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