Tom Spencer

JULY 7, 2023

Our analysis was impossible without extensive internal data and financial statements. We repeated our request a week later, but they only provided a balance sheet from the previous year. However, we struggled to calculate profitability over time, as the client had multiple kinds of products and used various procurement methods.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 26, 2019

building financial models like DCF, accretion/dilution, LBO, etc.). Enhanced financial resources : the financial wherewithal of two companies is generally greater than one alone, making new investments possible. Reduced labor costs : eliminating staffing redundancies can help reduce costs. Potential Drawbacks. Image: Pixabay.

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LSA Global

MAY 9, 2019

If you want to create the environment for high performance, you’d better understand the importance of business acumen and the financials behind the business. We believe that employees need to better understand the key factors that affect a company’s operations and financial strength to improve decision-making and strategy execution.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 6, 2013

Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Balanced Budget Ammendment Sign the Balanced Budget Petition. China Financial Markets. Financial Sense. Reader Question: Does the Fed Balance Sheet Properly Reflect QE Announcements? The feds balance sheet doesnt reflect it.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

European leaders are now using the same brand of financial wizardry which created the global financial crisis in the first place. Characterising the writedown of Greek debt as “private sector involvement” is more of the same financial manipulation, but it is also shrewd politics. Leave a Comment Now. Leave a Comment.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Banks; Global Financial System is Bankrupt. The effects of a system that ''encourages excessive financial leverage''. 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 By contrast, J.P. billion (€489.9

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Many other financial firms including AIG, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac needed bail outs. It may feel as though the financial system hasn’t changed much in the decade since the downturn, but it has. Most of the regulation was meant to safeguard the financial system, and the taxpayers who had to bail it out, from another crisis.

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MishTalk

JULY 11, 2014

Financial fluctuations (“financial cycles”) that can end in banking crises such as the recent one last much longer than business cycles. Yet financial cycles can go largely undetected. Yet financial cycles can go largely undetected. Historical evidence shows that this rarely happens following a balance sheet recession.

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MishTalk

JUNE 26, 2013

Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Balanced Budget Ammendment Sign the Balanced Budget Petition. China Financial Markets. Financial Sense. The Financial Times reports ECB exit from easing remains far off, Draghi says. Dollar Collapse News on the Dollar's Death Spiral.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 26, 2013

China''s Move to Market-Set Rates Let''s step back to December 8 and look at China Relaxes Grip on Interest Rates China is relaxing its grip on interest rates with the launch of a financial instrument that allows banks to trade deposits with each other at market-determined prices. China’s credit boom is still in full swing.

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MishTalk

MARCH 1, 2015

Reuters reports Austria Imposes Debt Moratorium on Heta "Bad Bank" Austria''s Financial Market Authority stepped in on Sunday to wind down "bad bank" Heta Asset Resolution and imposed a moratorium on debt repayments by the vehicle set up last year from the remnants of defunct lender Hypo Alpe Adria. billion euros ($8.51 More than 9.8

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 18, 2013

The Financial Times notes a Big rise in subordinated debt issuance by EU banks Banks have taken advantage of yield-chasing investors to issue $90.7bn of subordinated debt for the year to date, a 41 per cent increase compared to the same period in 2012. Also consider "stress tests".

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MishTalk

APRIL 1, 2015

Chicago finances are even worse than I thought which is saying quite a bit because I have written about the sorry state of Chicago finances on numerous occasion. Kristi Culpepper, a bond guru, has gone over Chicago''s annual financial report, bond documents, investor presentations, and CAFRs. Who Is Kristi Culpepper?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Meanwhile the Institute of International Finance forecasted net capital flows for emerging markets in 2015 would be negative for the first time since 1988. trillion, or 9%, over the past two years, and at just $646 billion, foreign direct investment in rich economies last year represented a 40% drop from the peak before the financial crisis.

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MishTalk

JUNE 28, 2013

Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Balanced Budget Ammendment Sign the Balanced Budget Petition. China Financial Markets. Financial Sense. The dismal forecast has some bracing for another taxpayer-financed bailout. Dollar Collapse News on the Dollar's Death Spiral.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 9, 2020

When I studied economics at Sydney University in the early 2000s and financial economics at Oxford in the early 2010s, I learned pretty much the same thing about money; very little. For example, if the US government spends more than it collects in taxes, it can finance the budget deficit by selling bonds.

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MishTalk

APRIL 7, 2014

The political stand-off over the bank recovery and resolution directive – a centrepiece of post-crisis financial reforms – is extremely unusual because it comes days before the European parliament is supposed to adopt the agreed text of the legislation.

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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." Mystery Money The Financial Times reports China trust deal raises thorny questions.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Investment banks are split between capital markets and corporate finance (also known as investment banking). Investment Banking – Capital Markets (Wholesale Banking) and Corporate Finance. As the bank is the counterparty of both the borrower and the lender, the bank indemnifies depositors from the risk of loss. Investment Banking.

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MishTalk

JUNE 27, 2013

Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Balanced Budget Ammendment Sign the Balanced Budget Petition. China Financial Markets. Financial Sense. Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets commented on the liquidity crunch and spike in SHIBOR a few days ago via email. Burning Platform.

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MishTalk

JULY 2, 2013

Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Balanced Budget Ammendment Sign the Balanced Budget Petition. China Financial Markets. Financial Sense. There exists no back-test for the current era of finance. Dollar Collapse News on the Dollar's Death Spiral. Burning Platform.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

A possible explanation for the SEP’s prediction of a rapid catch-up to potential GDP after 2009 is that participants overestimated the efficacy of monetary policy in the aftermath of a so-called balance-sheet recession. The SEP’s overprediction of the speed of the recovery could also be linked to other factors.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2016

But this new report, by estimating the risk to all financial assets and portfolios, finds a powerful middle ground that should get investor attention. These so-called “stranded assets,” sitting on petro-company balance sheets, are essentially worthless. Where are your financial assets invested and in what classes?

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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. This means that the foreign currency reserves are simply the asset side of a balance sheet against which there are liabilities. Bullish Arguments.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 16, 2017

To restore its balance sheet, it had to sell half the business. It may be investing in a product it doesn’t understand, which happened at Lehman Brothers during the global financial crisis. Consequently, the finance group, the risk organization, and the nonexecutive directors do most of this work.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 26, 2014

They lower mortgage and consumer financing costs for households, who represent a substantial portion of total borrowing, allowing them greater spending power. 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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MishTalk

JULY 10, 2013

Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Balanced Budget Ammendment Sign the Balanced Budget Petition. China Financial Markets. Financial Sense. Participants also described their views regarding the appropriate path of the Federal Reserves balance sheet. Burning Platform.

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Markovitz Consulting

MAY 19, 2021

As with individuals, there will be disagreement over metrics, but clearly we have to consider financial performance, internal stakeholders (employees), and external stakeholders (community). Similarly, one of the primary drivers of GE’s fall from grace was the reckless pursuit of profits from its financing operations.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 25, 2015

Greeks Stop Paying Taxes Late last week the Financial Times reported Greeks Stop Paying Taxes in Expectation of Syriza Poll Victory. A finance ministry official confirmed on Friday that state revenues had collapsed this month. Will Syriza be able to achieve everything it says? Probably not.

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MishTalk

JULY 7, 2015

940 Chinese Firms Halt Trading The Financial Times reports Stocks Fall Despite Stabilization Efforts Hundreds of Chinese companies have halted trading in their shares as Beijing struggles to insulate the economy from the country’s steepest equity decline in more than two decades. The open questions are as I stated at the top: "How Fast?"

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 24, 2017

Through a coordinated, systemic, prolonged intervention with dozens of institutions and thousands of individual participants, new growth of the local companies we trained has directly created over 1033 jobs, fueled by dozens of new private sector financings. strategic hires). day, scale-focused workshops and related activities.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

Scholars from a number of fields have offered explanations for this transition, including globalization, technological change, declining unionization, heightened product market competition, and the rise of finance. What if we changed some of those incentives?

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

On September 4, ECB President pulled out a financial bazooka including a pledge to build up the ECB''s balance sheet by another €1 trillion. In this case, the stench on Greek bank balance sheets will not go away. Instead, stench will also appear on the balance sheet of the ECB.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Roughly one in five of the euro zone''s top lenders failed landmark health checks at the end of last year but most have since repaired their finances, the European Central Bank said on Sunday. 48 Billion Shortfall The Financial Times reports ECB Says Banks Overvalued Assets by €48bn. The 130 banks account for 81.6

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

It has been 10 years since the global financial crisis, and the fall-out continues in the industry that was at its epicenter: banking. Of course, the retrenchment of global finance also reflects pressure on banks from regulators and shareholders to rebuild their capital and liquidity. And it is not alone.

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MishTalk

JUNE 30, 2013

Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Balanced Budget Ammendment Sign the Balanced Budget Petition. China Financial Markets. Financial Sense. or financial instrument, or to participate in any particular trading or investment strategy. Top Financial Blog Citations.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 9, 2013

It does not need to borrow money from foreign countries to finance its ongoing deficit (because there is no deficit). Greece Strikes Back The Financial Times reports Greece Strikes Back. Samaras Forced to Act Tough The Financial Times warns Samaras. Unless Germany forgives Greek debt, Greece is more likely than ever to default.

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