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

MishTalk

Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation? Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market. The risk premiums of risky securities have become unsustainably compressed in the process, and the Feds balance sheet has metastasized to $3.5 Trading Psychology Weblog. Trim Tabs - Bidermans Daily Edge.

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Rising COVID cases, falling economy

Tom Spencer

Since the start of February this year, the Fed has expanded its balance sheet by more than $2.4 To put that in context, the Fed was created in 1913, and its total balance sheet assets only reached $2.4 trillion towards the end of 2010. What does Fed balance sheet expansion mean for the US economy?

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Consultant Ninja: A Simple Question about the Credit Markets.

Consultant Ninja

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. Productivity. (6). A Simple Question about the Credit Markets. Posted by Consultant Ninja. at 7:39 PM. Labels: Analysis. Post a Comment.

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If You Think Downsizing Might Save Your Company, Think Again

Harvard Business

American firms alone laid off more than 8 million workers from the end of 2008 to the middle of 2010. Detractors, on the other hand, point to negative consequences including performance and productivity declines, decreases in customer satisfaction, and adverse effects on remaining employees, such as increased stress.

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

MishTalk

The most important effect is likely to be on demand for wealth management products. But one way or another we do have to write down the huge hidden losses in the country’s balance sheet, and this will mean not a collapse but rather many years of Japanese-style slow growth as the system grinds its way though its excesses.

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Persistent Overoptimism Three Ways: Truckers, Fed Economists, Manufacturers

MishTalk

Third-quarter Gross Domestic Product grew at a 1.5 My personal belief is the trucking industry needs to realize production of goods will have ups and downs,” Satish Jindel, principal of SJ Consulting , which closely tracks industry pricing, told Logistics Management. in October from 50.2 in September.

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Pettis on Strains in China's Banking System; Avoiding the Fall

MishTalk

In either case they reduce consumption demand relative to production. If together these two effects increase demand faster than lower rates increase production (as businesses take advantage of cheaper financing to expand production facilities), there is likely to be upward pressure on prices. The reason has to do with debt.

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