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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. Stop avoiding finance because you’re afraid of numbers. Think of it this way, “Finance is the way businesses keep score. “Finance and accounting are very simple. .” “Finance and accounting are very simple. Overcome your fears.

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China Cash Crunch Eases, For How Long? Three Things China Needs to Avoid; When can Beijing Truly move to Market-Determined Interest Rates?

MishTalk

Total credit in the economy (total social financing) showed a 40 per cent rise in November over the prior month and is on course for growth this year of almost 20 per cent. In fact we can judge the effectiveness of Beijing’s implementation of the reforms by how rapidly growth declines over the 2014 and 2015.

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Persistent Overoptimism Three Ways: Truckers, Fed Economists, Manufacturers

MishTalk

An updated study by Ahir and Loungani (2014) finds that the private-sector’s record of failure to predict recessions remained intact through 2008 and 2009. Recessions triggered by financial crises are typically preceded by sustained episodes of bubbly asset prices and debt-financed spending booms. A study by Alessi, et al.

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The Globalization Backlash Is Reverberating Through Boardrooms

Harvard Business

Meanwhile the Institute of International Finance forecasted net capital flows for emerging markets in 2015 would be negative for the first time since 1988. And in 2014, Pfizer, the U.S. Imports among the world’s 20 largest economies have fallen as a share of their gross domestic product for four consecutive years.

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Descent of the Global Monetary System

Tom Spencer

For example, if the US government spends more than it collects in taxes, it can finance the budget deficit by selling bonds. In March, American food prices rose at their fastest rate since 2014. The bonds are sold to primary dealers , who can then on sell the bonds to the Federal Reserve, who buys them with newly printed money.).

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

MishTalk

The interest rate burden on Chinese businesses and state-related entities has certainly been much higher in 2014 than it was for most of this century. They lower mortgage and consumer financing costs for households, who represent a substantial portion of total borrowing, allowing them greater spending power.

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Nifty-Fifty Becomes Fab-Five; Return of the "Four Horseman"; Ozone Layer

MishTalk

Congratulations, you went ahead in 2014. Fab-Five On November 16, Yahoo Finance reported How A Monster Year For Amazon, Google And Facebook Is Carrying The Stock Market. It opened the year 2000 at $50.40. You are seriously underwater and will never catch up. Dell is now private. Intel opened the year 2000 at $29.65. It is now $33.16.