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New Tools! More Pure Bank Profit!

MishTalk

Inquiring minds are monitoring the Fed''s Balance Sheet. One more week like this and the FED balance sheet will be $1 trillion more than last year at this time. Three rounds of so-called quantitative easing have enlarged the Fed’s balance sheet to almost $3.8 click on chart for sharper image.

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5 Ways Your Data Strategy Can Fail

Harvard Business

Paradoxically, “data” appear everywhere but on the balance sheet and income statement. enterprise systems, data warehouses, cloud, blockchain), but these new systems have missed the mark. Except for very few, this hasn’t happened. Indeed, the cold reality is that for most, progress is agonizingly slow.

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Political Greenwashing: US Exports Coal Pollution to Europe; What About China?

MishTalk

That’s because it shifts some pollution — and the burden for cleaning it — onto another other country’s balance sheet. It’s a global shell game that threatens to undermine Obama’s strategy of reducing the gases blamed for global warming and reveals a little-discussed side effect of countries acting alone on a global problem.

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Economic Illusions vs. Reality; Helicopter Drop, What Else?

MishTalk

The total debt of households, non-financial enterprises and the general government sector as a share of GDP is higher now than it was at the beginning of the GFC. The balance sheet of the Swiss National Bank has expanded even more impressively, again with no discernable impact on the inflation rate.

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business

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. See More Videos > See More Videos > Tackle the balance sheet. Overcome your fears. Play with numbers.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business

Think of E as Enterprise Value. In a traditional business, there is little connectivity or co-creation, so the enterprise value is equal to the “mass” of the company — its human resources, financial assets, intellectual property, and physical goods. C 2 is the exponential effect of Connectivity and Co-creation.

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Reflections on Conspiracy Theories and Sensible Accounting by Reader "Alice", 89 Years Young; True Meaning of Banking Safely

MishTalk

The founder of modern international finance, Amschel Rothschild, gave the aims and direction of his enterprise simple instruction when he declared he cared not what governments did, all he wanted was the right to control, print their money. When I began investing, one looked at the real property on balance sheets.

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