Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

My friends and I walked out of the Big Short several years ago feeling like a group of global financial crisis experts. Many an economics and finance course later, I see that the layers of complexities to the 2008 financial crisis are innumerable. We were shocked, how could no one have seen the collapse coming?

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MishTalk

JANUARY 28, 2014

"Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the world''s largest bank by assets, said on Thursday that it has no plans to use its own money to repay investors in a troubled off-balance-sheet investment product that it helped to market." Investors should have taken a hit. Certainly the promised 10% yield was too good to be true.

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MishTalk

JULY 10, 2013

Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Balanced Budget Ammendment Sign the Balanced Budget Petition. Participants also described their views regarding the appropriate path of the Federal Reserves balance sheet. scenario," and "left us with no clear picture as to what the group is.

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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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