MishTalk

OCTOBER 1, 2014

On Tuesday evening, Argentine President Cristina Fernández accused Juan Carlos Fábrega, head of Argentina’s central bank, of " provoking a devaluation of the peso ". In response Head of Argentine Central Bank Quits. Black Market Rate Shows 78% Decline The black market exchange rate is about 14 pesos to the dollar.

Banking 69

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 17, 2023

This idea has been echoed by some of the most influential figures in the business and finance world, including Professor Michael Porter, Michael Lewis, and Warren Buffett. As a result, the value of many of these securities plummeted to zero when the housing market crashed.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 18, 2013

The Financial Times notes a Big rise in subordinated debt issuance by EU banks Banks have taken advantage of yield-chasing investors to issue $90.7bn of subordinated debt for the year to date, a 41 per cent increase compared to the same period in 2012. It relates to bail-in procedures in the alleged European "banking union".

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 25, 2018

The story of the 2008 financial crisis begins somewhere shortly after the death of Jesus Christ himself. By distributing 100 million sesterces from the imperial bank to reliable bankers around the Empire and dropping interest rates to zero for three years, Tiberius saved Rome and the other affected nations of Egypt, Greece, and France.

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MishTalk

JUNE 25, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. China Acts to Calm Markets; Stock Market Rebounds From 6% Plunge After Central Bank Pledges More Liquidity; Wet Nurse Action.

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MishTalk

MARCH 31, 2014

Finance reports Yellen strongly defends easy Fed policies, cites U.S. labor slack Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen gave a strong defense of the central bank''s easy-money policies on Monday, saying its "extraordinary" commitment to boosting the economy, especially the still struggling labor market, will be needed for some time to come.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Central Banks and the Business Cycle I like it when someone besides a few financial bloggers takes the gloves off and starts asking some hard-hitting questions. The problem is that at these stratospheric valuations, the market does not need to suffer an ACTUAL recession to see a crash. Emphasis in italics is mine.

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Banking Policies Financial Marketing 75

MishTalk

DECEMBER 11, 2013

In an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal Blinders says " Don''t only drop the interest rate paid on banks'' excess reserves, charge them. Not long ago—say, until Lehman Brothers failed in September 2008—banks held virtually no excess reserves because idle cash earned them nothing. Banks are capital impaired. I think not.

Banking 67

Banking Small Business Insurance Insurance 67

Tom Spencer

JULY 25, 2020

Gabriel Makhlouf, former Reserve Bank Secretary, gave five major reasons (pdf) why New Zealand had managed to avoid the fate suffered by other advanced economies. These were: Domestic banks had limited exposure to global assets. Flexible exchange rate, product and labour markets. The HPI (Housing Price Index) is already 2.4%

Financial 68

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MishTalk

AUGUST 7, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation? Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market. Home Builders.

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MishTalk

APRIL 7, 2014

In lengthy negotiations last month the EU reached a deal on how to handle failed banks. Please consider EU Deal on Bank Failures Risks Unravelling A landmark EU agreement on a common rulebook for handling bank failures is in danger of unravelling over the fine print restricting when a state can intervene to rescue a struggling bank.

Banking 71

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MishTalk

JANUARY 24, 2014

Argentina Institutes 50% Tax on Internet Purchases; Emerging Market Contagion Spreads; Argentina, Venezuela, Turkey Roundup Yesterday, Argentina devalued the Peso hoping to halt further declines in its currency reserves. Markets had seen this coming as charts of the Peso vs. the US dollar show. The 5-year decline is over 50%.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 7, 2014

(See Enter the Carpetbaggers: Ukraine''s New Finance Minister a US Citizen, New Economy Minister from Lithuania ). Ukraine’s central bank reported foreign-currency reserves at their lowest for almost a decade, raising pressure on the West to provide more financing to the country being squeezed by Russia. Failing to add.

Banking 75

Banking Finance Government Report 75

MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

A Fiscal Times, Yahoo Finance article by by John Grgurich claims that Instead of QE, Fed Could Have Given $56,000 to Every Household in America. The "intriguing piece" is Print Less but Transfer More , Why Central Banks Should Give Money Directly to the People. That is the amount the Fed effectively gives banks, per year.

Banking 71

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MishTalk

JULY 25, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. In Spain, demonstrations call for a public banking as a solution to problems. Abolish The Fed Sign the Petition. Daily Bell.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Mexico’s central bank revived an intervention program designed to curb foreign-exchange volatility after the peso fell to a two-year low. percent from the previous close, the central bank said today in a statement. It’s more of a preventative one based on high market volatility.” That''s not a luxury Mexico has.

Banking 72

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MishTalk

JULY 22, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Chancellor Merkel and finance Minister Schäuble have said Germany will not agree to a transfer union. Home Builders.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Smart Debt Engineering The markets are giddy today over a Plan to End Debt Standoff released yesterday by Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis. ECB Nixes Plan Already Today the European Central Bank Said "No" Latest Greek Bailout Plan. Link if video does not play: Wayne''s World at the 2008 MTV Movie Awards.

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MishTalk

JUNE 26, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. GoldMoney: The Best Way to Buy Gold & Silver. Dollar Collapse News on the Dollar's Death Spiral. Home Builders. Daily Bell.

Analysis 70

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MishTalk

JANUARY 26, 2014

In Emerging Market Contagion Spreads , I presented a viewpoint that emerging market currencies have been under pressure because of falling commodity prices. To be fair, quite a few emerging market currencies as well as the currencies of developed countries that are large commodity exporters have been under pressure for some time.

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MishTalk

JULY 10, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. GoldMoney: The Best Way to Buy Gold & Silver. Dollar Collapse News on the Dollar's Death Spiral. Home Builders. Daily Bell.

Sales 73

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MishTalk

JULY 23, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Scranton taxpayers could face a 117 percent increase in taxes next year as the citys finances continue to spiral out of control.

Real Estate 77

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MishTalk

JULY 6, 2015

The overheated Shanghai and Shenzhen markets have lost 29 and 32 per cent respectively over the past three weeks following 7-year highs reached on June 12. Instead of welcoming a much needed correction, Chinese brokerages and the Bank of China agreed to prop up the market. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index added 2.41

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MishTalk

AUGUST 1, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Nonetheless, the bond market has other ideas. Market Gets Message. GoldMoney: The Best Way to Buy Gold & Silver.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 4, 2014

We have asked the central bank to take measures to make sure that speculators can no longer take advantage,” Russia’s president said in a speech on Thursday. “We Currency Action Since July 2008 the Ruble had gone from 24Rub-per-US$ to 54Rub-per-US$. We know who those people are, and we have the means to rein them in. It does to me.

Banking 76

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MishTalk

JULY 10, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Mr Juncker has been prime minister since 1995 and was head of the eurozone finance ministers group between 2005 and January 2013.

Real Estate 73

Real Estate Case Interview Financial Advertising 73

MishTalk

JULY 17, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. France, for example, recently called for direct EU assistance for wobbly Greek banks. Abolish The Fed Sign the Petition.

Analysis 71

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MishTalk

JULY 19, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. GoldMoney: The Best Way to Buy Gold & Silver. Dollar Collapse News on the Dollar's Death Spiral. Home Builders. Daily Bell.

Real Estate 73

Real Estate Financial Advertising Case Interview 73

MishTalk

AUGUST 3, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Bank Lending, Jobs, The Great Retrace. December 2008 (85). November 2008 (78). October 2008 (108).

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Perverse Central Bank Battle In the perverse central bank battle to defeat price deflation, the central banks are having a rough go of things. The price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) light sweet crude is down 6 percent today to lows last seen late 2008 and January 2009. since May of 2004 when it closed at $37.04.

Banking 28

Banking Energy Report Productivity 28

MishTalk

JULY 11, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. GoldMoney: The Best Way to Buy Gold & Silver. Dollar Collapse News on the Dollar's Death Spiral. Home Builders. Daily Bell.

Analysis 71

Analysis Trends Real Estate Financial 71

MishTalk

JULY 24, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Bank Lending, Jobs, The Great Retrace. GoldMoney: The Best Way to Buy Gold & Silver. Abolish The Fed Sign the Petition.

Trends 77

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MishTalk

JULY 30, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. and DoubleLine Capital LP and at least 18 trade groups representing the finance industry, homebuilders and real estate firms.

Real Estate 75

Real Estate Case Interview Financial Advertising 75

MishTalk

JULY 2, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. According to the Bank of Spain, loans to the private sector residents, families and businesses have registered a fall of 6.1%

Real Estate 71

Real Estate Financial Advertising Case Interview 71

Consultant Ninja

MARCH 23, 2009

Friedman Billings Ramsey was hot back in 2005 - boutique investment bank, middle market, a cool FBR acronym. The investment bank still operates as FBR Capital Markets. It is probably better explained by decent execution of a decent strategy during a REALLY GREAT time to be in finance. Monday, March 23, 2009.

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MishTalk

JUNE 28, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. The dismal forecast has some bracing for another taxpayer-financed bailout. Abolish The Fed Sign the Petition. Big Picture.

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MishTalk

JULY 22, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. And that reason is global central bank debasement of currency. GoldMoney: The Best Way to Buy Gold & Silver. Daily Bell.

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