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Rate Hike Cycles, Gold, and the “Rule of Total Morons”

MishTalk

In response to Janet Yellen’s everything is OK speech following today’s balance sheet reduction notice by the FOMC committee, I received an interesting set of comments from Pater Tenebrarum at the Acting Man Blog regarding rate hike cycles, gold, and stock market peaks. Mike “Mish” Shedlock

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Rate Hike Cycles, Gold, and the “Rule of Total Morons”

MishTalk

In response to Janet Yellen’s everything is OK speech following today’s balance sheet reduction notice by the FOMC committee, I received an interesting set of comments from Pater Tenebrarum at the Acting Man Blog regarding rate hike cycles, gold, and stock market peaks. Mike “Mish” Shedlock.

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

Harvard Business

In June 2017 the board “retired” Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. So far in 2017, GE is the worst-performing stock on the Dow Jones Industrial Average. In the case of P&G, 40% of its stock was owned by small investors, helping the company fight off a 2017 proxy battle with Trian.). Then it wasn’t.

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

MishTalk

28, as Bond Girl, she wrote a 1,650-word blog post for the Financial Times’ Alphaville on a proposed debtor-in-possession financing for bankrupt Detroit. It is not a balance sheet test, but a cash flow test. That’s more than the state’s total projected general-fund spending in fiscal years 2016, 2017 and 2018 – combined.