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Hilarious Transcripts of Fed Minutes from 2008 Reveal Completely Clueless Fed

MishTalk

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Here is a list of FOMC Transcripts and Other Historical Materials, 2008 Notes I purposely cherry picked statements of various Fed governors. Amazingly, Bernanke spoke of pent-up demand for housing in January of 2008 The January 29-30 transcript was a whopping 194 pages long. I didn’t quite get that.

Construction

Construction Conference Meeting Policies

Strong Economy – Strong Buy-Sell Market

Martinka Consulting

APRIL 26, 2019

Second question: is there similar activity with larger companies, small, mid-sized, and lower middle market firms? 70% of medium sized companies will change hands (2008). Barlow research – Two-thirds of lower middle-market business owners are expected to retire. Notice the same predictions from 2008-2015?

Marketing

Marketing PricewaterhouseCoopers Cash Flow Banking

Risk Exposure vs. “Good” Outcomes

CaseInterview.com

JANUARY 28, 2019

The latter happened in 2008 (the cause of the Great Recession and stock market crash). The layperson thinks 2008 was a “bad” year. A person who has a more sophisticated and nuanced understanding of risk understands the risk EXPOSURES in 2007 and 2008 were not all that different. Using Kickstarter to finance a business.

Insurance

Insurance Insurance McKinsey Finance

Inside a Fortune 500 Boardroom

CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In contrast, my favorite boardroom belonged to a clothing retail chain in California during the Great Recession of 2008. If you know finance, especially the finance of retail businesses, that’s nearly impossible. Gross Margin = Price of Your Product - Cost of the Product. but was still profitable!

Case Interview

Case Interview Retail Finance Conference

Winning Isn’t Everything: The Art of Playing Well

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. They also advocate for environmental issues.

Ethics

Ethics Financial Cash Flow Real Estate

Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation?

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. Automatic Earth.

Balance Sheet

Balance Sheet Marketing Real Estate Financial

Emerging Market Contagion Spreads; Argentina, Venezuela, Turkey Roundup; 50% Tax on Internet Purchases

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%.

Marketing

Marketing Policies Government Financial

Consulting or Banking

Tom Spencer

MAY 8, 2016

People in the “investment banking” or “corporate finance” division typically help large organisations undertake merges and acquisitions. People in the “sales and trading” division buy and sell financial products. Sales people communicate with investors to sell financial products.

Banking

Banking Consulting Comparison Finance

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Only Hope For Italy is.

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. EC : In Italy, the public sector is not intended as an aid to the production of wealth and public goods and services.

Analysis

Analysis Trends Real Estate Financial

Destruction of French Manufacturing Placed Squarely on Euro

MishTalk

JUNE 27, 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. Since the launch of the euro, French and German industrial productions have extremely diverged. Automatic Earth. Daily Bell.

Real Estate

Real Estate Financial Advertising Case Interview

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Problems in Italy Go On.

MishTalk

JULY 12, 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. Needing revenue to meet its budget deficit targets, Italys Finance Undersecretary Says Budget Crunch May Require More From Rich.

Analysis

Analysis Trends Real Estate Financial

New Zealand’s Financial Crises Resilience

Tom Spencer

JULY 25, 2020

Flexible exchange rate, product and labour markets. Thankfully, median prices in the housing market remained reasonably high , with the growth of house prices stagnating only temporarily rather than falling. If Australia and China had suffered a recession in 2008, New Zealand may have been in a lot more trouble.

Financial

Financial Policies Banking Comparison

Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success

Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 7, 2023

A global survey of over 5000 CEOs revealed that greater than 60 percent of organizations anticipate introducing new products or services to fuel their growth. Company cultures centered on efficiency thinking have flooded the marketplace with low-cost, widely available products and resulted in tremendous waste and social issues (Brown, 2009).

Culture

Culture Financial Leadership Deloitte

Portuguese Bond Yield Spikes to 8% as Portugal's Coalition

MishTalk

JULY 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. GoldMoney: The Best Way to Buy Gold & Silver. Dollar Collapse News on the Dollar's Death Spiral. Automatic Earth.

Real Estate

Real Estate Financial Government Advertising

Japan Exports and Trade Balance vs. the Yen; Abenomics in Review

MishTalk

JULY 26, 2014

The Yen was in this general area, at times, in 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, and 2014. The CHART OF THE DAY shows the value of Japan’s exports is 23 percent below a March 2008 peak, even as those of South Korea, the U.S. The loss of global market presence by Japan’s companies, especially electronic appliance makers, is also a factor.”

Finance

Finance Energy Transportation Report

Lettuce Bot - Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis

MishTalk

JULY 27, 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. food system - particularly fruit and vegetable production - depends on immigrants more than any other sector of the U.S.

Analysis

Analysis Trends Real Estate Financial

Japan Tells Firms "Stop Sitting on Cash", Ignore the Lack of Customers

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. Heres a simple question: What happens to prices when more products are produced in the face of falling or static demand?

Real Estate

Real Estate Financial Advertising Case Interview

Argentine Central Bank Chief Quits in Currency Dispute; Hyperinflation On the Way?

MishTalk

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Mr Fábrega leaves the central bank as annual inflation has climbed to around 40 per cent, and presided over huge monetary emission to finance a growing fiscal deficit, with negative real interest rates of about 20 per cent. Black Market Rate Shows 78% Decline The black market exchange rate is about 14 pesos to the dollar.

Banking

Banking Benchmarking Government Journal

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Jewel Food Store Amazing.

MishTalk

JULY 16, 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. was correct and then adjusted the weight of the product on the receipt to reflect the. December 2008 (85).

Analysis

Analysis Trends Real Estate Financial

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: China Manufacturing PMI.

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. PMI, Production, Exports. This adds more pressure on the labour market. Abolish The Fed Sign the Petition.

Analysis

Analysis Trends Real Estate Advertising

Wholesale Sales Unexpectedly Decline (Most in Nearly Five Years), Inventories Unexpectedly Rise

MishTalk

MARCH 11, 2014

Finance reports U.S. Sales of non-durable equipment such as petroleum and paper products dropped 3.2 percent, the sharpest fall since December 2008. Sales of petroleum and petroleum products were down 7.5 percent from last month and sales of paper and paper products were down 2.9 Sales at wholesalers fell 1.9

Sales

Sales Report Finance Productivity

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Payroll Employment for Age.

MishTalk

JULY 27, 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. Here is a snip from my May 1, 2008 post on the Demographics Of Jobless Claims. Abolish The Fed Sign the Petition.

Analysis

Analysis Trends Real Estate Case Interview

"China Urbanization Growth Fallacy"; Trouble with Ponzi Schemes

MishTalk

JULY 14, 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. Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets tackles the above questions via email on " The Urbanization Fallacy ". Daily Bell.

Real Estate

Real Estate Financial Analysis Case Interview

Manufacturing ISM Rebounds Slightly but Employment Drops

MishTalk

JULY 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. percent, and the Production Index increased by 4.8 Production 53.4 GoldMoney: The Best Way to Buy Gold & Silver.

Real Estate

Real Estate Financial Advertising Case Interview

"Tax Nightmare" of Eminent Domain Mortgage Seizures

MishTalk

JULY 31, 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. You are insolvent when your total debts are more than the fair market value of your total assets. Automatic Earth.

Real Estate

Real Estate Case Interview Financial Advertising

Non-Manufacturing Services ISM Fails to Meet Expectations

MishTalk

JULY 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. Business Activity/Production 51.7 December 2008 (85). November 2008 (78). October 2008 (108).

Meeting

Meeting Real Estate Financial Advertising

Japan Near Stagnation Following 9 Months of Growth

MishTalk

AUGUST 5, 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. Mish and Eric King discuss Gold, the Stock Market, the US Dollar, Sideline Cash, China, and US real estate. July 2008 (104).

Real Estate

Real Estate Case Interview Financial Advertising

Message to 5.7 Million Truck Drivers "No Drivers Needed"

MishTalk

AUGUST 5, 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. Alchemist : Who will have money to buy the products these automated trucks are hauling? Abolish The Fed Sign the Petition.

Real Estate

Real Estate Financial Trends Advertising

272000 Full-Time Jobs Lost - Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis

MishTalk

JULY 5, 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. Private average weekly hours of production and non-supervisory workers were flat at 33.7 December 2008 (85).

Trends

Trends Analysis Real Estate Survey

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: IMF "Baseline Scenario.

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. Gross domestic product -3.7 -0.3 GoldMoney: The Best Way to Buy Gold & Silver. Abolish The Fed Sign the Petition.

Analysis

Analysis Trends Real Estate Financial

Big Miss in Retail Sales vs. Expectations; Trend Change or Another

MishTalk

JULY 15, 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. percent in June, the most since February 2008. GoldMoney: The Best Way to Buy Gold & Silver. Automatic Earth.

Retail

Retail Trends Sales Real Estate

Consultant Ninja: Friedman Billings Ramsey and Tom Peters.

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. Productivity. (6). The ANALyst.

Oliver Wyman

Oliver Wyman Consulting Airlines McKinsey

Plague of Gold Bears Now Say "Gold Unsafe at Any Price"

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. No other market has produced such a flurry of widely and loudly telegraphed grave dancing. Automatic Earth. Big Picture.

Real Estate

Real Estate Financial Case Interview Banking

Keynes Is Dead, Abenomics Fizzles, US Fails to Reach Escape Velocity, Stimulus Fatigue

MishTalk

JANUARY 21, 2014

Today''s information technology allows a multinational company to position research, marketing, finance and managerial jobs to anywhere. Financial markets have become wobbly lately as growth momentum cools off. The 2008 crisis prompted a pause. In the decade before the 2008 financial crisis, trade was driving growth.

Information Technology

Information Technology Information Technology Financial Policies

Why consulting?

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

For instance, we examined predatory pricing in the airline industry and illegal product tying by Apple, Microsoft, and AT&T. market for latex condoms. Recently, Mayer Laboratories sued Church and Dwight, Trojan’s parent company, for illegally monopolizing the market. My group chose to examine the U.S.

Consulting

Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering

Credit Equals Gold No.1

MishTalk

JANUARY 28, 2014

On January 15, Reuters reported China''s ICBC says won''t compensate investors in troubled shadow bank product. 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."

Banking

Banking Balance Sheet Productivity Financial

Digital Growth Depends More on Business Models than Technology

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives.

Advertising

Advertising Turnaround Resources Comparison

What Big Consumer Brands Can Do to Compete in a Digital Economy

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2018

It also hurts the brands sold inside the stores, which in part explains why consumer product giants like Procter & Gamble are seeing their sales stagnate for products like Tide detergent, Gillette razors, Pampers diapers, and Crest toothpaste. Maxx and Marshalls—which compete aggressively on price. Price competition hurts.

Retail

Retail Sales Productivity Industry

How Companies Are Already Using AI

Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department. bribes and kickbacks).

Company

Company Survey Finance Engineering

Consultant Ninja: "Future Demand Borrowing": Management.

Consultant Ninja

DECEMBER 3, 2009

This indication should signal, pent up demand to return to the market to take advantage of favorable pricing and financing. 2010-Present: Off the road 2009 Stats: Airline Miles: 24,902 Nights away from home: 73 (of 216: 34% of nights) AMEX Charges: $21,220 2008 Stats: Airline miles: 87,589 Nights away from home: 159 (of 365: 43.6%

Oliver Wyman

Oliver Wyman Consulting Management Airlines

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Michael Pettis on the China.

MishTalk

JUNE 27, 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. Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets commented on the liquidity crunch and spike in SHIBOR a few days ago via email.

Analysis

Analysis Trends Real Estate Banking

Seven Years Later, Global Debt Keeps Piling Up, $57 Trillion More Than 2007

MishTalk

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Some of this debt, incurred with the encouragement of world leaders to finance bailouts and stimulus programs, stems from the crisis. These countries want to avoid property-related debt crises like those of 2008. Since 2007, government debt has grown by $25 trillion. Debt also rose as a result of the recession and the weak recovery.

Real Estate

Real Estate Government Banking Financial

Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

The pressure on large companies in today’s equity markets is enormous, with expectations they will continue to produce outsized returns as PE ratios climb daily. Royal Dutch Philips is a $20B diversified consumer electronics, healthcare, and lighting products company. Country and Market Units (P&L, and some infrastructure).

Apparel

Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals

Headline #1: "Most Americans Have Less than $1,000 in Savings"; Headline #2: People Saving Too Much is Now a Problem

MishTalk

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Approximately 62% of Americans have less than $1,000 in their savings accounts and 21% don’t even have a savings account, according to a new survey of more than 5,000 adults conducted this month by Google Consumer Survey for personal finance website GOBankingRates.com. That said, I agree with the overall message: people are not saving enough.

Finance

Finance Banking Survey Policies

Hilarious Transcripts of Fed Minutes from 2008 Reveal Completely Clueless Fed

Strong Economy – Strong Buy-Sell Market

Trending Sources

Risk Exposure vs. “Good” Outcomes

Inside a Fortune 500 Boardroom

Winning Isn’t Everything: The Art of Playing Well

Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation?

Emerging Market Contagion Spreads; Argentina, Venezuela, Turkey Roundup; 50% Tax on Internet Purchases

Consulting or Banking

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Only Hope For Italy is.

Destruction of French Manufacturing Placed Squarely on Euro

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Problems in Italy Go On.

New Zealand’s Financial Crises Resilience

Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success

Portuguese Bond Yield Spikes to 8% as Portugal's Coalition

Japan Exports and Trade Balance vs. the Yen; Abenomics in Review

Lettuce Bot - Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis

Japan Tells Firms "Stop Sitting on Cash", Ignore the Lack of Customers

Argentine Central Bank Chief Quits in Currency Dispute; Hyperinflation On the Way?

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Jewel Food Store Amazing.

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: China Manufacturing PMI.

Wholesale Sales Unexpectedly Decline (Most in Nearly Five Years), Inventories Unexpectedly Rise

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Payroll Employment for Age.

"China Urbanization Growth Fallacy"; Trouble with Ponzi Schemes

Manufacturing ISM Rebounds Slightly but Employment Drops

"Tax Nightmare" of Eminent Domain Mortgage Seizures

Non-Manufacturing Services ISM Fails to Meet Expectations

Japan Near Stagnation Following 9 Months of Growth

Message to 5.7 Million Truck Drivers "No Drivers Needed"

272000 Full-Time Jobs Lost - Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: IMF "Baseline Scenario.

Big Miss in Retail Sales vs. Expectations; Trend Change or Another

Consultant Ninja: Friedman Billings Ramsey and Tom Peters.

Plague of Gold Bears Now Say "Gold Unsafe at Any Price"

Keynes Is Dead, Abenomics Fizzles, US Fails to Reach Escape Velocity, Stimulus Fatigue

Why consulting?

Credit Equals Gold No.1

Digital Growth Depends More on Business Models than Technology

What Big Consumer Brands Can Do to Compete in a Digital Economy

How Companies Are Already Using AI

Consultant Ninja: "Future Demand Borrowing": Management.

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Michael Pettis on the China.

Seven Years Later, Global Debt Keeps Piling Up, $57 Trillion More Than 2007

Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Headline #1: "Most Americans Have Less than $1,000 in Savings"; Headline #2: People Saving Too Much is Now a Problem

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