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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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Banks – Industry Overview

Tom Spencer

If the bank does its job well, it can achieve an acceptable loss ratio that makes the aggregate loan book profitable despite some individual loans not being repaid. Investment banks are split between capital markets and corporate finance (also known as investment banking). Investment Banking. Bank Income Statements. Interest Income.

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Descent of the Global Monetary System

Tom Spencer

Money is not really respected in academia, and so most of the attention tends to focus on other topics: the interaction between buyers and sellers, the structure of industries, statistical modelling, the valuation of financial assets, and so on. If consumer prices rise unexpectedly, this reduces consumer spending power and economic activity.

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Bulls and Bears Debate China: Property Bubble Expands Again; GDP Growth Picks Up; Economic Recovery Underway? No Says Michael Pettis

MishTalk

We are often told that a fall in housing prices won’t affect the real economy in China much because, unlike in the US, the amount of real estate financed by mortgages is quite low. This means that the foreign currency reserves are simply the asset side of a balance sheet against which there are liabilities.

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

MishTalk

Ten years ago, the industry was dominated by names such as Microsoft, Intel, Dell and Cisco. Fab-Five On November 16, Yahoo Finance reported How A Monster Year For Amazon, Google And Facebook Is Carrying The Stock Market. billion Book Value: $5.07 per share Share Price: $120 Price/Book: 23.09 billion Book Value: $26.50

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What is a Healthy Company?

Markovitz Consulting

Often people will point out that many of these companies have run into trouble since he wrote the book. Similarly, one of the primary drivers of GE’s fall from grace was the reckless pursuit of profits from its financing operations. Healthy companies pursue profit relentlessly, but only as a means to an end, not the end itself.

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Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

Harvard Business

Bain & Company’s Macro Trends Group carefully analyzed the global balance sheet and found that the world is awash in money. Global capital balances more than doubled between 1990 and 2010 — from $220 trillion (about 6.5 So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. times global GDP).