MishTalk

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Spain''s regional and local governments are struggling to pay back debts. The central government has not made much progress either. Since 2008, Spanish debt has increased by €600 billion. Mike "Mish" Shedlock [link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 1, 2014

After continual clashes over economic policy with Argentina’s economy minister Axel Kicillof, there are fears that Mr Fábrega’s departure may clear the way for greater government control over the central bank. Black Market Rate Shows 78% Decline The black market exchange rate is about 14 pesos to the dollar. to the US dollar.

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Banking Benchmarking Government Journal 69

MishTalk

DECEMBER 25, 2015

Creature of Financial Markets Stephen Roach, former Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and the firm's chief economist, blasts the Greenspan Fed, the Bernanke Fed, and the Yellen Fed in his latest post The Perils of Fed Gradualism. A majority of financial market participants applaud this strategy. In fact, it is a dangerous mistake.

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MishTalk

JULY 9, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. What Has Government Done to Our Money? China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Alex Barron, a regional general manager for Wal-Mart U.S., Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts. Featured Links. 3 "Implode-O-Meters" Mortgage Lenders.

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Consultant Ninja

JULY 31, 2009

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. We enjoy the protection of armed services, police, fire departments, and lifeguards, indirectly supported by taxes and provided by federal, state, and local governments.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 5, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. What Has Government Done to Our Money? China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Note the steady, steep growth in government jobs over the years, only dipping and then going flat in 2009. Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts. Home Builders.

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Trends Analysis Real Estate Financial 74

MishTalk

JUNE 28, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. What Has Government Done to Our Money? China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, chaired by Rep. Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts. Featured Links. Home Builders. Recommended Books.

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MishTalk

JULY 24, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. What Has Government Done to Our Money? China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. However, as government programs go, its easy to make a case that HAMP was a tremendous success. This government program only wasted $4.4

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Trends Analysis Real Estate Case Interview 77

MishTalk

JULY 28, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. What Has Government Done to Our Money? China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. We are entering a new phase of crisis management, "Stark told the Handelsblatt (Friday edition). Draghi bought the governments in Europe time.

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MishTalk

JULY 10, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. What Has Government Done to Our Money? China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. The rise in yields have wreaked havoc in the bond markets and even more so in mortgage-related Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). Sitka Pacific.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 28, 2013

With 57 offices worldwide, Booz offers consulting services for top businesses, governments, and organizations. Besides their core competency – advising the federal government and its contractors – maybe this is why we could call them “America’s favorite.” Program Management. Thank you, Edwin Booz.

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Interviews Culture Company Case Interview 181

MishTalk

JULY 24, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. What Has Government Done to Our Money? China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. elect our local, state and federal government officials. appointments to the agency charged with oversight of labor-management. Sitka Pacific.

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MishTalk

JULY 15, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. What Has Government Done to Our Money? China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts. Featured Links. GoldMoney: The Best Way to Buy Gold & Silver. Dollar Collapse News on the Dollar's Death Spiral.

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Analysis Trends Real Estate Financial 73

MishTalk

JULY 16, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. What Has Government Done to Our Money? China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Americans concerned about the growing arrogance of our government and its increasingly menacing nature should be working to help Mr. Snowden find asylum.

Real Estate 77

Real Estate Financial Advertising Case Interview 77

Tom Spencer

JULY 25, 2020

So how did New Zealand manage to escape the GFC relatively unscathed? 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. Flexible exchange rate, product and labour markets. The HPI (Housing Price Index) is already 2.4%

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Financial Policies Banking Comparison 68

MishTalk

JULY 30, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. What Has Government Done to Our Money? China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. The idea has drawn opposition from bondholders such as Pacific Investment Management Co. Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts. Featured Links. Home Builders.

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Real Estate Case Interview Financial Advertising 75

MishTalk

JULY 31, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. What Has Government Done to Our Money? China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Whats worse, is that for nearly every euro that enters government coffers, it is burning one euro in cash. Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts. Home Builders.

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MishTalk

JULY 10, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. What Has Government Done to Our Money? China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Mr Juncker, Europes longest-serving head of government, told parliament he would step down on Thursday. Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts. Featured Links.

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Real Estate Case Interview Financial Advertising 73

MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Venezuela has nice oil reserves but the government is spending more cash than it receives from pumping oil. s collapse in 2008 to 14.25 The bond market is finally beginning to wake up” to the possibility of Venezuela defaulting, David Rees, an economist at Capital Economics in London, said by phone.

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Insurance Insurance Government Marketing 72

MishTalk

JULY 9, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. What Has Government Done to Our Money? China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. By definition, government spending adds to GDP, no matter how useless the spending. Choice #2 : Let the free market adjust itself. Big Picture.

Analysis 67

Analysis Trends Real Estate Case Interview 67

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. Varoufakis said the government would no longer call for a headline write-off of Greece’s €315bn foreign debt. Link if video does not play: Wayne''s World at the 2008 MTV Movie Awards.

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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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Balance Sheet Banking Tourism Sports 78

MishTalk

JULY 25, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. What Has Government Done to Our Money? China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. For example, in Italy, the Monti government introduced a tax on real estate, and 85% of Italians are owners. Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts. Big Picture.

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MishTalk

JULY 4, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. What Has Government Done to Our Money? China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. And that is bad news for an industry whose sales in their home markets is already complicated by the financial crisis. Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts.

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Analysis Trends Real Estate Financial 71

MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

percent in August from a year earlier - the lowest since 2008 when the economy was buffeted by the global financial crisis - compared with expectations for 8.8 Some analysts believe annual economic growth may be sliding towards 7 percent in the third quarter, putting the government''s full-year target of around 7.5 percent in July.

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Industry Government Retail Policies 75

Tom Spencer

JULY 22, 2013

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MishTalk

AUGUST 3, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. What Has Government Done to Our Money? China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts. Featured Links. GoldMoney: The Best Way to Buy Gold & Silver. Dollar Collapse News on the Dollar's Death Spiral.

Analysis 71

Analysis Trends Real Estate Financial 71

MishTalk

JULY 2, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. What Has Government Done to Our Money? China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. The government plans to ask its creditors to lower this years privatization target of 2.6 Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts. Featured Links. Home Builders.

Real Estate 72

Real Estate Financial Advertising Case Interview 72

MishTalk

JULY 2, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. What Has Government Done to Our Money? China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Despite the efforts, or the good wishes of the Government, the day of the reopening of the credit tap still seems distant. Sitka Pacific. Big Picture.

Real Estate 71

Real Estate Financial Advertising Case Interview 71

MishTalk

DECEMBER 7, 2014

It also presents a dilemma for the West, which is reluctant to hand over more cash without clearer evidence that Ukraine’s newly elected government will deliver on pledges to overhaul the bureaucratic and corruption-plagued economy. Encouraged by the US, Ukrainians overthrew a Russian-leaning government. Failing to add. for a month].

Banking 75

Banking Finance Government Report 75

MishTalk

JULY 11, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. What Has Government Done to Our Money? China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts. Featured Links. GoldMoney: The Best Way to Buy Gold & Silver. Dollar Collapse News on the Dollar's Death Spiral.

Analysis 71

Analysis Trends Real Estate Financial 71

MishTalk

AUGUST 3, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. What Has Government Done to Our Money? China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts. Big Picture.

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Analysis Real Estate Financial Advertising 77

MishTalk

MAY 24, 2014

Repetitive rounds of QE, competitive currency debasement, interest rates at zero, and sponsorship of the internet bubble followed by the housing bubble, followed by the current stock market bubble is proof enough. and (more government spending) but the slow deleveraging and lack of structural reforms.

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System Banking Policies Insurance 78

MishTalk

JULY 14, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. What Has Government Done to Our Money? China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Until June 1, Sareb had managed to sell 700 properties (550 in the first 3 months). Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts. Featured Links. Home Builders.

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Banking Analysis Trends Real Estate 76

MishTalk

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Currency Action Since July 2008 the Ruble had gone from 24Rub-per-US$ to 54Rub-per-US$. If the US and Iran come to agreement ending sanctions on Iran, more Iranian oil will flow on the markets, likely pressuring prices further (assuming all other factors remain the same). That is a decline of 55.55%. That is a 6-month decline of 37%.

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Banking Finance Analysis Policies 76

Management Consulted

MARCH 18, 2015

In 1954 , Bill Frohlich, and David Dubow, teamed up to form IMS, a market research company aimed at enabling organizations make informed, strategic decisions about the marketplace. By 1969 , they had proven themselves and were held as the gold standard in pharmaceutical market research in Europe and Asia. Practice Areas .

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MishTalk

JUNE 25, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. What Has Government Done to Our Money? China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. The yield on the Germany 10-Year government bond is 1.80, up from a year-low of 1.17%. Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts. Featured Links. Home Builders.

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