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?
Martinka Consulting
APRIL 26, 2019
70% of medium sized companies will change hands (2008). Notice the same predictions from 2008-2015? We have a few articles in our “writing folder” (articles I’ve saved to write about) on bad management, how technology is replacing people, and employee unhappiness. Their average age of retirement is 67. And guess what?
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Harvard Business
AUGUST 15, 2016
Most executives know that the present value of an investment comes from projecting its cash flows and discounting those numbers into today’s dollars. The way in which many companies make investment decisions blinds them to this reality. Believing that good entrepreneurs seek out risk. They don’t.
MishTalk
AUGUST 7, 2013
John Hussman had a thought-provoking article this week on the The Minsky Bubble. So refraining from any forecast of what will happen in the near term, it’s sufficient to observe that the economic data is not nearly as strong as widely perceived, and the impact of QE on stock prices does nothing to improve the underlying cash flows.
Harvard Business
JULY 17, 2018
Since Immelt’s departure, GE’s stock is down another 30%, as its new CEO, John Flannery, has struggled to cope with the cash flow drain from years of problematic acquisitions, divestitures, and buybacks. Because of these dubious decisions, GE’s ratio of debt to earnings has soared from 1.5 in 2013 to 3.7
Harvard Business
APRIL 5, 2017
Similarly, considering greater accruals (which represent the difference between reported income and operating cash flows) to measure short-term orientation has its difficulties. It assumes that a smaller proportion of cash flows in earnings indicates a myopic firm.
Harvard Business
MARCH 1, 2018
In fact, 2018 may mark the first year shale producers will be able to fund future expansions of drilling programs through their own cash flow. By placing upper and lower bounds on price volatility, producers can count on a more certain cash flow. These increasingly efficient survivors now represent half of U.S.
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