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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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The age old tale of financial crises

Tom Spencer

trillion dollars buying troubled assets and bonds in order to provide liquidity to banks from 2008 to 2015. Moreover, balance sheet data from the Federal Reserve shows that the acquired assets have remained fairly consistent in value, indicating that the underlying assets were not altogether a lost cause.

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10 Flaws with Mainstream Economics

Tom Spencer

Corporate finance academics argue that firms should act to maximise shareholder value, since shareholders are the owners of the firm. For example, Amazon earned only modest profits from 2004 to 2015, choosing instead to focus on increasing market share and developing new products. Economics assumes that firms aim to maximise profits.

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

MishTalk

New Four Horseman On January 6 2012, GeekWire proclaimed Meet the new ‘four horsemen’ of tech: Sorry, Microsoft, Dell, Cisco and Intel. In July of 2015, CNN Money proclaimed Why you need to own the Four Horsemen of Tech. There are 500 companies* in the S&P 500, but 2015 has been a year for the top 1%. Goldman's chief U.S.

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FOMC Minutes and Economic Projections: Dissent in Both Directions

MishTalk

Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Balanced Budget Ammendment Sign the Balanced Budget Petition. percent for 2015. All participants saw the appropriate target for the federal funds rate at the end of 2015 as still well below their assessments of its expected longer-run value.