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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. What’s fascinating about QE is that it has no transmission mechanism to the real economy except as a weak can-kicking exercise - and even then only by creating enormous distortions in pursuit of minute "wealth effects."

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"Whatever It Takes" Stage Two; Headwinds Explain Why Draghi Will Fail This Time

MishTalk

Take out the word "Alphie" and substitute "Draghi" and the answer is " Assuage Investors " in yet another can-kicking exercise. Having already cut interest rates to record lows and saying they can go no lower, Draghi is now focused on boosting the ECB’s balance sheet. Hope is really all the ECB has. Headwinds explain why.

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

Harvard Business

Related Video. See More Videos > See More Videos > Tackle the balance sheet. “Take an interest in the balance sheet and then do the due diligence to understand it,” he says. “Take an interest in the balance sheet and then do the due diligence to understand it,” he says.

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Inequality Isn’t Just Due to Market Forces — It’s Caused by Decisions the Boss Makes, Too

Harvard Business

Related Video. As my colleague Peter Cappelli recently argued , automation technologies are profitable, in part, because they are considered an asset on a firm’s balance sheet that can be depreciated. However, any discussion of firms and wage inequality must not be limited to discussion of market forces.

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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business

In short, as one Manizales stakeholder put it, communicating growth meant exercising muscles they did not even know they had. 200 video clips on growth-related topics have attracted over 22,000 views and many thousands more people are following Scaling Up Manizales on Facebook and Twitter.