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Apple's Balance Sheet Math: Does Apple Really Have $203 Billion in Usable Cash on Hand as Widely Reported?

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Current Liabilities Cash Much Smaller Than You Think I don't often dive into balance sheets, but did so after reading a Market-Watch opinion by Brett Arends. billion in “off-balance-sheet” liabilities. If “off-balance-sheet” is not included in my totals, then subtract another $31.5 billion and $137.1

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Persistent Overoptimism Three Ways: Truckers, Fed Economists, Manufacturers

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“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. Here are the readings for 2015. Month/Year Current Conditions Expected Conditions 1/2015 7.78 7/2015 -14.92

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

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After all, if you’re trying to sell a product or strategy, you need to be able to demonstrate that it is both practical and high margin. Here are some strategies to improve your financial intelligence. See More Videos > See More Videos > Tackle the balance sheet. Overcome your fears. Play with numbers.

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Capital Flight from Italy High and Rising

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In response to Eurozone Target2 Imbalances Creeping Back Up , I received a nice email from Dr. Eric Dor, Director of Economic Studies at IESEG School of Management (Lille and Paris France) regarding the imbalances in Italy. Data of the balance of Payments have been published until August 2015. Eric Dor Writes.

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Can the Fed Really Print Money? What Would Negative Interest Rates Do?

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However, in Hoisington's Third Quarter 2015 Review , economist Lacy Hunt makes the claim the Fed cannot print money. The Fed may try to offset such currency drains, but this would only be achievable by further expanding the Fed’s already massive balance sheet. That strategy cannot possibly work as Japan has proven for decades.

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Seven Charts Explain Why Chicago Bonds Rated Junk

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Chart #2: Growing Payments While the current state of the city’s balance sheet is dismal, the real problem relates to what is expected to develop over the next decade. Chicago pension plan payments are expected to double from 2014 to 2015, and will then continue to rise for another decade before they begin to decline.

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The Globalization Backlash Is Reverberating Through Boardrooms

Harvard Business

In 2015, Global Trade Alert, an independent trade-monitoring group, cited at least 644 discriminatory trade measures imposed by the G20 economies with the U.S. Meanwhile the Institute of International Finance forecasted net capital flows for emerging markets in 2015 would be negative for the first time since 1988. at the forefront.