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Consultant Ninja: A Simple Question about the Credit Markets.

Consultant Ninja

Tuesday, March 31, 2009. Heres my understanding of the current TARP/TARPII/PPIP/etc plans: The major "sick" banks wont lend to businesses, because their balance sheets are tied up with bad assets that they cant sell. March 31, 2009 at 9:52 PM. March 31, 2009 at 10:03 PM. April 1, 2009 at 1:14 AM. at 7:39 PM.

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Persistent Overoptimism Three Ways: Truckers, Fed Economists, Manufacturers

MishTalk

Trucking Industry Entering a Profit-Killing Era of Overcapacity? As surface transportation’s peak period ends for the year, and trucking eyes the traditionally slowest time for the industry as first quarter 2016, economic signals are, at best, mixed. Third-quarter Gross Domestic Product grew at a 1.5 in October from 50.2

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Germany’s Midsize Manufacturers Outperform Its Industrial Giants

Harvard Business

Most of these companies are private and don’t publish their balance sheets. Since its founding our company has achieved growth every year, and only once, in 2009, did we experience a drop in revenue, of one percent.

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How the Great Recession Changed Banking

Harvard Business

The Great Recession of 2007 to 2009 was under way. That strengthened investment banks’ balance sheets by forcing them to scale back and to change the nature of the risks they take. Fees earned from advising companies and helping them issue debt are up 25%, and now account for one-quarter of the industry’s earnings.

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Credit Equals Gold No.1

MishTalk

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."

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Reflections on 2013; What's Important, What's Not? What's Ahead?

MishTalk

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. Ironically, Merkel immediately followed up with " The German government would not tolerate a weakening of German industry or job losses ". Here we are.