MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

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. That is no coincidence.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Instituting massive rate hikes in such a situation is certainly a better approach than wasting foreign reserves in market interventions. Of course in a panic sell-off, (or its corollary, a blow-off move), being early by just a few days day can be pretty painful in the short run.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Many an economics and finance course later, I see that the layers of complexities to the 2008 financial crisis are innumerable. Once the housing market began to collapse, mortgages defaulted, and MBS began to fail. To conserve capital, banks institute a lending freeze, and bank balance sheets contract as existing bank loans are repaid.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Générale has severe capital constraints (which of course they will deny) and/or other major problems. trillion balance sheet is leveraged nearly 49-to-1. As a group, these three banks have some €4 trillion in assets on their balance sheets, supported by €129.3 Société Générale. of its assets—which means its €1.6

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MishTalk

APRIL 17, 2015

Bernanke also made the case in his presentation for keeping the Fed’s balance sheet big in the aftermath of the financial crisis. [Is Most other major central banks have permanently large balance sheets and are able to implement monetary policy without problems,” he said. [And pray tell, what credibility is that?]

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MishTalk

JUNE 26, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Balanced Budget Ammendment Sign the Balanced Budget Petition. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Bernanke says the US economy is solid enough that the Fed can begin tapering its balance sheet purchases later this year.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 26, 2015

Of course Keynesian fools would never admit such a thing. The balance sheet expansion of the Bank of Japan since the crisis has been remarkable but ineffective as regards the achievement of sustained positive inflation and, since 2000, the inflation target. The bank of Japan is now the entire market for Japanese debt.

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MishTalk

JULY 30, 2014

That’s because it shifts some pollution — and the burden for cleaning it — onto another other country’s balance sheet. Obama pretties up his own climate balance, but it doesn’t help the global climate at all if Obama’s carbon dioxide is coming out of chimneys in Germany.” So, too, are the prices on the carbon market in Europe.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 26, 2014

In Emerging Market Contagion Spreads , I presented a viewpoint that emerging market currencies have been under pressure because of falling commodity prices. To be fair, quite a few emerging market currencies as well as the currencies of developed countries that are large commodity exporters have been under pressure for some time.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 22, 2013

From 1997-2000 the Fed ignored a major bubble in the stock market. He conveniently ignores the fact he was on the Fed in the Greenspan years, that he presided over the biggest property bubble in history, and he also ignores the stock market bubble we are in now. Inflation Benefit 3 (?): "Balance sheet recession" might go away!

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MishTalk

JANUARY 16, 2014

While the ECB confirmed that it will require lenders to have a capital ratio of 8 percent, what qualifies as capital will change over the course of the three-part assessment, the central bank said in an e-mailed statement. Given that requirement, banks could be forced to provision capital against potential risks from the exposure.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Draghize : "The test is credible because the ultimate purpose of it is to restore or strengthen private sector confidence in the soundness of the banks, in the quality of their balance sheets". This is of course why the tests must essentially be stress-free. Mish : The test is credible because we say it is.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

The eurozone is doing so by accident, letting market forces drain liquidity from the financial system for month after month. The ECB balance sheet has plummeted to 23pc of eurozone GDP from a peak of 32pc in July 2012. And of course the US must avoid a rise in the dollar, and Japan must avoid a rise in the Yen.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 24, 2013

A few days ago my lawyer advised me " Don''t go France " (not that I had any plans to of course). Wolf Richter at the Testosterone Pit commented on Gagging Doubt: French Crackdown On French And American Bloggers Who Question Megabank Balance Sheets The France''s Financial Markets Authority (AMF) announced on Nov.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

In it, the authors, both sociologists, made a compelling argument that, to understand labor market outcomes like inequality, it wasn’t enough to look at the supply and demand for individuals’ skills. However, any discussion of firms and wage inequality must not be limited to discussion of market forces. Related Video.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Data contributes not only to brand equity, but to what constitutes product and service delivery in globally connected and hyper-competitive markets. To analyze EvD, determining the relative importance of data to an enterprise’s balance sheet, its ability to effectively compete, and its operational capabilities is a good place to start.

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MishTalk

JULY 11, 2014

The BIS slam, coupled with a recent stock market selloff, brought up debate on a " controlled collapse ". Over the past few years, non-financial corporations in a number of EMEs have borrowed heavily through their foreign affiliates in the capital markets, with the debt denominated mainly in foreign currency.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Despite the unprecedented increase in the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet, growth in M2 over the first nine months of this year fell below its average rate of growth over the past 115 years, a time when the growth in the monetary base was stable and quite modest. Let's take a look, emphasis mine.

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freshminds

MARCH 20, 2018

However, hopefully these helpful tips can help you adapt your CV and your approach to the job market to let your ‘consulting’ type experience, shine through and make it as inviting as possible for prospective consultancies. Have you worked on quantifiable analytical work, cash flow, balance sheet, P&L etc?

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MishTalk

JANUARY 28, 2014

"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." Investors should have taken a hit. Certainly the promised 10% yield was too good to be true.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

The market still does not seem to have grasped the significance of this phase of currency wars. 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! Global trade would then collapse amidst competitive currency debasement.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Of course, there is also persistent overoptimism about earnings growth and stock market expectations. In November 2007, the Federal Open Market Committee began releasing projections for real GDP growth four times per year in its Summary of Economic Projections (SEP). The track record on recessions is perfect.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 9, 2020

Australia, Canada, the EU, Japan, Mexico, the UK, and America), when they devalue their currency it tends to weaken in the foreign exchange market, making the country more competitive in global trade. Of course, some countries do have different monetary policies. Vatican City , British Virgin Islands and Panama ).

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Without paying banks interest to hold excess reserves idle in the banking system, the Fed could reduce its balance sheet by more than one-third (over $1.4 So it simply acts as a hot potato, encouraging yield-seeking speculation in the financial markets. Notice something.

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Harvard Business

JULY 17, 2018

It’s no wonder, then, that young people are anxious about their ability to compete in the job market. Of course, communication must be about a particular topic. These advances all point toward the total automation of our lives, including the way we work and do business.

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Harvard Business

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Once one of the most powerful companies in the world, today the company has a market capitalization of less than $1 billion. Why did this happen?

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MishTalk

JUNE 27, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Balanced Budget Ammendment Sign the Balanced Budget Petition. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets commented on the liquidity crunch and spike in SHIBOR a few days ago via email.

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Harvard Business

MAY 28, 2018

He asked one former major investor for a reaction to the company’s prediction (accompanying poor quarterly results): “that the [current] market contraction will bottom out soon and our profits will improve.” ” The company took note and duly committed to reducing costs at a rate exceeding market contraction.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2016

Strewn about the table were probably the tools of your trade: reams of data, balance sheets and P&Ls. All of which, of course, lead to greater personal resilience. Create a bull market. Financial markets boom when increasing numbers of investors want in. Insight Center. Building Resilience. Sponsored by SoFi.

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MishTalk

JUNE 9, 2015

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. billion over the course of 10 years. Data Sources: Illinois Policy Institute, 2010 Census, Chicago Budget. Per capita income estimate is for Cook County.

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MishTalk

JUNE 28, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Balanced Budget Ammendment Sign the Balanced Budget Petition. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Since these worst case scenarios are always famously optimistic, the best course of action would be to shut the agency down.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

I don''t and neither does Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets. The Financial Times reports China house price surge raises prospect of steps to cool market. Deposit rates are still low and the stock market has been uncooperative. But of course they are not. Bulls think China is on the mend. Bullish Arguments.

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MishTalk

JULY 10, 2015

Employment Slack It is my judgment that the lower level of the unemployment rate today probably does not fully capture the extent of slack remaining in the labor market--in other words, how far away we are from a full-employment economy. Indeed, industrial production continued to decline somewhat in April and May.

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MishTalk

JULY 2, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Balanced Budget Ammendment Sign the Balanced Budget Petition. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Ritholtz on Gold and on Making Predictions; How Secular Bull Markets End; Winning vs. Investing. Sitka Pacific.

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MishTalk

APRIL 6, 2015

I am in a minority of one in suggesting that just the opposite is the case: expansion of the money supply through open market purchases of government bonds by the central bank is the direct cause of deflation. They knew they could always dump them on the Fed in the open market with a hefty markup.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 12, 2016

Most of these companies are private and don’t publish their balance sheets. But when it comes to little-known leaders in their market, Germany has 1,307 “hidden champions,” nine times as many as those two countries combined. Of course, this distinct orientation comes with a risk.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 26, 2014

They also tend to be associated with rising stock and real estate markets, which, by making households feel wealthier, encourages higher consumption. This isn’t the first time, of course, that the balance-sheet dynamics during a growth miracle have created unrealistic evaluations about the quality of policymaking.

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