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Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation?

MishTalk

Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation? Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market. The risk premiums of risky securities have become unsustainably compressed in the process, and the Feds balance sheet has metastasized to $3.5 Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation?

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Why Apple Is Getting into the Energy Business

Harvard Business

Consider Apple, hardly a byword in the energy business. This summer, the company applied for federal licenses to sell directly to customers the excess renewable energy it generates on its new campus and in facilities across Oregon, Nevada, and California. California, Texas, and most of the U.S. electric demand.

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A New Way to Think About Office Lighting

Harvard Business

Most offices have adequate but aging lighting systems that often operate inefficiently, can waste vast amounts of energy, and annoy employees. We believe that a recent business-model innovation will overcome this barrier and upend commercial lighting and other energy services. Hence the opportunity for third-party service providers.

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Profitability Framework

Tom Spencer

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. There are lots of ways to do this, including by: Product.

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6 Reasons Inflation is Higher than You Think

Tom Spencer

Due to improved technology and rising productivity, the Federal Reserve has been able to juice the money supply for more than 70 years without it showing up too much in the price level. Energy prices jumped 50% in the last 12 months , and food prices jumped more than 1.2% The measure of inflation has changed.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business

In November, United States’ crude oil production exceeded 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). The recent price swings highlight a new era of uncertainty gripping the world’s energy markets. hbr staff/bettmann/Getty Images.

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Credit Equals Gold No.1

MishTalk

On January 15, Reuters reported China''s ICBC says won''t compensate investors in troubled shadow bank product. 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."

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