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Would a Bund by any other name smell as sweet?

Tom Spencer

by Tom Spencer on November 26, 2011 · 0 comments  ·  Image Source. Firstly, the German Debt Agency ( Finanzagentur ) normally retains part of any new Bund offer, so a partial sale of Bunds is pretty standard. Thirdly, European banks are currently focused on building their balance sheets not on lending.

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Persistent Overoptimism Three Ways: Truckers, Fed Economists, Manufacturers

MishTalk

Sales of Class 8 heavy trucks are on pace for one of the best years in history - around 260,000 units in North America. Overoptimism 2011-2013 A notable feature of the SEP growth forecasts for 2011 through 2013 are the extremely high starting values—around 4% or higher. So they’re not stuck with excess drivers and trucks.”

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Or they may even put the entire company up for sale.

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Shockingly Bad Fiscal Health of Chicago (and the Financial Engineering Chicago Uses to Hide that Fact)

MishTalk

Among other things, she handles the structuring and sale of bonds for schools across the state. Bond Girl, using the Twitter handle @munilass, had been posting commentary about state and city borrowing and issues beyond public finance since April 2011. From 2009 to 2011, the city used $320 million from the Metered Parking Reserves.