MishTalk

AUGUST 22, 2014

More Questions Any banks fudging the definition of a performing loan? What about mark-to-market valuations of loans and assets on the balance sheets of banks? Mike "Mish" Shedlock [link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Definitions for what constitutes EvD, and methodologies to calculate its value, remain in their infancy. In the same way that banks must constantly balance assets and liabilities, data-laden firms need to move from cyber-defense and fire-fighting toward more proactive management of what could prove to be their most important asset.

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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. The answer depends on the definition. So which is it?

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Tom Spencer

MAY 9, 2020

This is a problem because it forces households and businesses to divert energy away from productive activity and towards managing and avoiding the cost of inflation. One way to manage liquidity risk is to increase your stock of savings. What asset(s) do you think people should buy to manage inflation risk? Final thoughts.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

When I began investing, one looked at the real property on balance sheets. In today''s tech driven world, the definition of value is more cloudy than ever before, especially since all transactions and exchanges are literally fabricated from thin air and deposited in "The Cloud".

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Banks, fund managers and other institutions in the interbank market will be able to trade the CDs, but non-financial companies and retail investors will be barred. A hitherto strong focus on managing interest rates, even with the occasional liquidity squall, has meant that credit growth and leverage have continued to rise rapidly.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

economy based on relationships that are indistinguishable from someone sneezing on a sheet of graph paper. Those who managed to get to that point were in for a nice down to earth set of comments and graphs that followed. By definition, nominal GDP is equal to the monetary base multiplied by the “velocity” of the monetary base.

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MishTalk

JULY 7, 2015

We can see this mindset at work in China’s management of two recent bubbles: the real estate market and local government debt. Building entire cities where no one lives, malls where no one shops, trains that no one uses all add to GDP because of the ridiculous definition that says all government spending adds to GDP.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

Retailers like Walmart and Macy’s manage a supply chain, buying and reselling their own inventory. Note that people often get hung up on definitions of “platform” these days. Let’s see what happens when we connect them rather than manage them — that is, focus on the links rather than the nodes.

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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. But of course they are not. Pettis on GDP.

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MishTalk

JULY 2, 2013

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. As a staunch deflationist, as well as someone who is definitely not agnostic regarding gold, I am proof enough. ” Don’t hold your breath waiting for that to happen.

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MishTalk

MARCH 17, 2014

This model rests on an understanding of how distortions in the savings rates of different countries have driven the great trade and balance-sheet distortions with which we are wrestling today, just as they have in most previous global crises, including those of the 1870s, the 1930s, and the 1970s. I suggest "something else".

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MishTalk

APRIL 1, 2015

It is not a balance sheet test, but a cash flow test. So Chicago is not bankrupt by definition (yet) and has a huge tax base. Mike "Mish" Shedlock [link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. This is one of several eligibility criteria.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 16, 2018

We’re focusing today on how new challenges and new technologies are changing human capital management, and how to ensure that this key resource becomes a sustained competitive advantage for your company. How are those changes impacting business leaders, and what does that mean for human capital management? Angelia Herrin, HBR.

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