Tom Spencer

MAY 9, 2020

By taking America off the gold standard, the US dollar became a fiat currency, deriving its value not from a claim on gold but from the stability and creditworthiness of the US government, the tax collecting power of the Internal Revenue Service, and the restraint of the Federal Reserve in limiting the supply of dollars. (It

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MishTalk

AUGUST 22, 2013

And long-term rates are what matter for capital investment, which is key to increasing the economy’s growth potential and raising productivity.". Inflation Benefit 2: The federal government debt goes away. Inflation Benefit 3 (?): "Balance sheet recession" might go away! Balance sheet recession" might go away!?

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Like they have for extreme weather and natural disasters, companies can begin to establish international protocols and standards to govern AI not just within their own walls, but also to put in place processes to work with other companies, insurers, and policymakers. AI Insurance Products and Services. AI International Protocols.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 26, 2013

But over the past two years, the government has rolled back its controls, lifting all restrictions on lending rates and giving banks more freedom to determine deposit rates. Advocates have called for such a system for years, saying it is the cornerstone of further financial reform.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 28, 2014

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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Harvard Business

JANUARY 16, 2017

Problem-finding boards understand the three drivers of ungoverned incompetence — a collapse of competence, shortcomings in self-governance, and inadequate corporate governance — and why they can be so hard to detect. To restore its balance sheet, it had to sell half the business. Collapse of Competence.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 26, 2014

In either case they reduce consumption demand relative to production. If together these two effects increase demand faster than lower rates increase production (as businesses take advantage of cheaper financing to expand production facilities), there is likely to be upward pressure on prices. The reason has to do with debt.

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MishTalk

JULY 11, 2014

Government debt-to-GDP ratios have risen further; in several cases, they appear to be on an unsustainable path. Historical evidence shows that this rarely happens following a balance sheet recession. They are simply too slow-moving for policymakers and observers whose attention is focused on shorter-term output fluctuations.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Banks lend money to individuals, businesses, and governments through a variety of loans and collect interest payments. Although mortgages do not necessarily pay high interest rates, they do not eat up any capital due to the safety of the financial product and implicit government guarantees. Various other products.

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MishTalk

JULY 16, 2014

Readers of our letters are familiar with our long-standing assessment that the cause of slower growth is the overly indebted economy with too much non-productive debt. Rather than repairing its balance sheet by reducing debt, the U.S. Yesterday, in Corporate and Government Bonds: Where to From Here?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Imports among the world’s 20 largest economies have fallen as a share of their gross domestic product for four consecutive years. government’s Committee for Foreign Investment blocked a $3.3 at the forefront. All of which require a deft handling of intercultural sensitivities. This year, for example, the U.S.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Mervyn Davies, a former head of Standard Chartered and British government minister, said: "China is very rich in reserves … At the end of the day, the [Chinese] banks do need recapitalising, which is not a huge challenge to them because the government can recapitalise the banks.".

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Harvard Business

MAY 28, 2018

For its part, Nikon focused on cost optimization opportunities and balance sheet management when communicating to value-oriented investors and on long-term structural changes when communicating to growth-oriented investors. It also called for streamlining headquarters and cutting executive management’s compensation.

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MishTalk

APRIL 6, 2015

The simple definition V = GDP/M where V is velocity, M is money supply, and GDP is Gross Domestic Product. The second problem with velocity is that GDP is a pretty nebulous concept given that government spending (no matter how useless) adds to GDP. Each gives a different measure of velocity). Mish : It''s not counter-intuitive at all.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

They grow faster, make more money, and are more valued than companies organized around products and services. A production process turns inputs into outputs and distributes them through a tightly controlled supply chain. Value is in the products and services themselves. We normally think of people as something to be managed.

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MishTalk

JUNE 27, 2013

What Has Government Done to Our Money? Government credibility is high, and given the wide-spread assumption that the government stands behind the banks, I do not expect anything approaching a bank run. The most important effect is likely to be on demand for wealth management products. Home Builders. Recommended Books.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment through the internet of things and analytical software with a suite of products called Predix Cloud. Companies and government organizations are discovering that innovation activities without a defined innovation pipeline result in innovation theater.

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MishTalk

JULY 10, 2015

Here too, however, the signal is not entirely clear , as other factors such as longer-run trends in productivity growth also generally influence the growth of compensation. Outlook for the Economy The latest estimates show that both real GDP and industrial production actually edged down in the first quarter of this year.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 25, 2021

In order to develop a more coherent world view that can reliably inform individual, business and government decision making, we must be willing to question some of the basic ideas that are foundational to mainstream economic thinking. Factors of production. Rational decision making. This may not be the same as maximising profits.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 24, 2017

For us, growth events mean simply concrete, directly observable achievements that foreshadow future success: for example, new customer contracts, initial export sales, new bank or equity financings, expanded production capacity, or expanded people platforms (e.g. strategic hires). day, scale-focused workshops and related activities.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2016

My guess is that while a poor balance sheet might cause restless sleep, it’s the thought of an incorrectly reported balance sheet that brings on night terrors. This is not surprising: Growing regulation, increased investor focus on governance issues, and scary new categories of corporate risk (e.g.

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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. It does so in two ways.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 12, 2020

However, national governments and central banks have different ideas. Governments guarantee bank deposits in order to prevent bank runs. In 2020, the Fed has galloped over the precipice, increasing its balance sheet by around $2.8 This inadvertently removes each bank’s incentive to act prudently.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 3, 2014

Had I suggested in 2007 that the Fed balance sheet expansion of $75 billion a month would have been considered "tightening" people would have thought I was nuts. Ironically, Merkel immediately followed up with " The German government would not tolerate a weakening of German industry or job losses ". Here we are.

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