Martinka Consulting

MAY 4, 2018

And it can be threatening to an owner who wants to be in control of everything, because one thing that makes a business more attractive, and adds value, is a self-sufficient management team. It is tough to manage a business, be in control, and implement (a new) strategy. You’d be surprised how often it isn’t the same.).

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MishTalk

AUGUST 6, 2013

Balanced Budget Ammendment Sign the Balanced Budget Petition. Recommended Books. Reader Question: Does the Fed Balance Sheet Properly Reflect QE Announcements? The feds balance sheet doesnt reflect it. So if QE is $85B a month, where is it and why doesnt it show up in the Feds balance sheet.".

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

In the 2016 book The End of Accounting , NYU Stern Professor Baruch Lev claimed that over the last 100 years or so, financial reports have become less useful in capital market decisions. This becomes clear when you look at a company’s two most important financial statements: the balance sheet and the income statement.

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Martinka Consulting

MARCH 5, 2021

I was honored to have IBA team members Gregory Kovsky and Curt Maier contribute a chapter to my latest book, Getting the Deal Done. The book is 61 short chapters, 50 of them written by me and 11 by other deal pros like Gregory and Curt. Have a strong balance sheet. Show profit, no matter what your CPA says.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 16, 2014

However, we will penalize banking exposure to bonds contained in the trading book, i.e., those that are available for immediate sale." Another Sham Stress Test As a result of that preposterous trading-book rule, banks will shift 100% of their sovereign bonds to their hold-to-maturity bucket, at least for the duration of the test.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

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. Of course, there are also myriad books and reference guides on the topic. Overcome your fears. Play with numbers.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 22, 2014

But until then, with worries mounting that the central bank will come down hard on banks with particularly weak loan books, investors and analysts have been scrambling to determine which of these lenders are most at peril. What about mark-to-market valuations of loans and assets on the balance sheets of banks?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Managers wanting to grow share of wallet and raise the productivity of their cross-selling efforts may have to confront longstanding practices that stand in the way. Take a balance-sheet view. And they must calculate the real economic value of these segments, so that they can create targeted strategies that will be profitable.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

The balance sheet of the European Central Bank has fallen by €553bn over the past year as banks repay money that they no longer want, either because ECB funds are too costly in a near-deflationary world or because lenders are being compelled by regulators to shrink their books.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 17, 2014

This is not necessarily a problem if the decline was expected because a business is sustained from cashflow, not profit, and long term growth can be pursued through capital appreciation, which shows up on the balance sheet and not on the profit and loss statement. Profit equals revenue minus cost. yep, so far so good).

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MishTalk

JUNE 26, 2013

Balanced Budget Ammendment Sign the Balanced Budget Petition. Recommended Books. Draghi Announces ECB Exit From Easing Remains Far Off; Think the Fed Has an Exit Strategy? Bernanke says the US economy is solid enough that the Fed can begin tapering its balance sheet purchases later this year. Home Builders.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

It it is worth noting just how aggressive the BoJ has become with the central bank balance sheet already at around 55% of GDP and rapidly heading higher still! Mike "Mish" Shedlock [link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

equity strategist and the firm's portfolio strategy research team note that narrow market breadth, with just a handful of strong performers carrying the load for a slew of weaker performers, tends to favor high-quality stocks with strong balance sheets and lower volatility. billion Book Value: $5.07 Price/Book: 24.27

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Then it wasn’t.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

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. Wealth Management – wealth management is heavily favored today in bank strategy due to low capital requirements – the business model was covered in the series on Asset Management.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

There seems to be a still-widespread perception that PBoC reserves represent a hoard of unencumbered savings that the PBoC has somehow managed to collect. The PBoC has been forced to buy the reserves as a function of its intervention to manage the value of the RMB. I highly recommend Michael Pettis'' his book " The Great Rebalancing ".

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Harvard Business

JULY 15, 2016

Sure, people print nostalgic books and holiday cards, but that volume pales in comparison to Kodak’s heyday. No strategy is static. Sasson himself told The New York Times that management’s response to his digital camera was “that’s cute – but don’t tell anyone about it.”

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 26, 2014

And yet most analysts have interpreted the former as implying that policymakers in China were especially capable, and so they assumed that the same high-quality economic management would ensure that the subsequent slowdown would be much less than expected. It will be confusing, but happy New Year anyway. Michael Pettis is always a great read.

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MishTalk

APRIL 6, 2015

That is deflation in Fekete''s book, but not mine. If you consolidate all balance sheets in a country (including that of the national treasury), then all liquid assets will be wiped out, with the sole exception of gold. Gold is the only asset that is not duplicated as a liability in the balance sheet of someone else.

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MishTalk

JUNE 28, 2013

Balanced Budget Ammendment Sign the Balanced Budget Petition. Recommended Books. While these reforms may improve FHAs balance sheet over the long term, they would also reduce market liquidity, which in turn could cause home prices to fall. Abolish The Fed Sign the Petition. 3 "Implode-O-Meters" Mortgage Lenders.

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MishTalk

JUNE 27, 2013

Balanced Budget Ammendment Sign the Balanced Budget Petition. Recommended Books. During the coming week I believe that a significant amount of Wealth Management Prodiucts (WMP) will mature, and because of asset/liability mismatched this WMP must be rolled over. Abolish The Fed Sign the Petition. Home Builders. Newer Post.

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MishTalk

JULY 2, 2013

Balanced Budget Ammendment Sign the Balanced Budget Petition. Recommended Books. It’s very easy for a confident-sounding analyst, fund manager or professor to say something on TV that can throw off the best laid plans of investors. Abolish The Fed Sign the Petition. 3 "Implode-O-Meters" Mortgage Lenders. Newer Post.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 26, 2014

The European Central Bank’s dissection of the books of the eurozone’s biggest banks has found lenders overvalued their assets by €48bn. However, the total amount of under-capitalization is a mere €48 billion out of balance sheets that total €22 trillion. The 130 banks account for 81.6 per cent of all eurozone assets.

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MishTalk

JULY 10, 2013

Balanced Budget Ammendment Sign the Balanced Budget Petition. Recommended Books. Participants also described their views regarding the appropriate path of the Federal Reserves balance sheet. or financial instrument, or to participate in any particular trading or investment strategy. Home Builders.

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Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2017

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 Yet the same crisis ushered in a new age of capital superabundance. times global GDP).

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MishTalk

JUNE 30, 2013

Balanced Budget Ammendment Sign the Balanced Budget Petition. Recommended Books. And the recent cash crunch in the interbank market is likely to slow expansion of off-balance sheet lending, further exacerbating funding conditions for SMEs. Abolish The Fed Sign the Petition. 3 "Implode-O-Meters" Mortgage Lenders.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 17, 2013

On December 12 the Financial Times reported EU reaches landmark deal on failed banks with a "common rule book for handling failed banks". He notes that the ECB will end up as "supervisor" of 128 banks with an aggregate balance sheet "somewhere between €26 trillion and €27 trillion." How big is the proposed bailout fund? €55

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MishTalk

MARCH 17, 2014

I recommended his book " Great Rebalancing ", and still do. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.' I am very appreciative.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 3, 2014

Had I suggested in 2007 that the Fed balance sheet expansion of $75 billion a month would have been considered "tightening" people would have thought I was nuts. Orwell''s book 1984 was written in 1949. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction.

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