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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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2008 Financial Crisis – Causes and historical context

Tom Spencer

Many an economics and finance course later, I see that the layers of complexities to the 2008 financial crisis are innumerable. Dow Jones Industrial Average collapse following Lehman’s failure was the largest stock market decline since the aftermath of September 11. It all seemed so clear.

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Credit Equals Gold No.1

MishTalk

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the world''s largest bank by assets, said on Thursday that it has no plans to use its own money to repay investors in a troubled off-balance-sheet investment product that it helped to market." Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. Investors should have taken a hit.

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Persistent Overoptimism Three Ways: Truckers, Fed Economists, Manufacturers

MishTalk

Of course, there is also persistent overoptimism about earnings growth and stock market expectations. Trucking Industry Entering a Profit-Killing Era of Overcapacity? Trucking Industry Entering a Profit-Killing Era of Overcapacity? So far, the industry does not appear to be doing that. The Fed never sees them coming.

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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. Of course, some countries do have different monetary policies.

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The 3 Company Crises Boards Should Watch For

Harvard Business

Another CEO used prodigious management skills to successfully consolidate, grow, and dramatically increase the efficiency of a vertically integrated industrial company. To restore its balance sheet, it had to sell half the business. This appears to explain events at the industrial company. Shortcomings in Self-Governance.

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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. But of course they are not. This means that the foreign currency reserves are simply the asset side of a balance sheet against which there are liabilities.