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Bank Profitability: Decoding the Income Statement

Tom Spencer

It reflects the bank’s assessment of potential losses it may incur and its commitment to maintaining a strong balance sheet. Income tax and indirect tax are two additional types of taxes levied by governments. Indirect tax refers to taxes imposed based on the consumption, sale, or use of goods and services.

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Another "Print Your Way to Prosperity" Mindless MMT Proposal

MishTalk

The Fed’s tapering merely slows the growth of its balance sheet. The rarely admitted truth, however, is that there is no need for central banks’ balance sheets to shrink. They could stay permanently larger; and, for some countries, permanently bigger central-bank balance sheets will help reduce public-debt burdens.

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6 Reasons Inflation is Higher than You Think

Tom Spencer

“By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.” ~ John Maynard Keynes. In order to take this into account, government agencies (e.g., Government has an incentive to cheat. in October , its highest level since 1990.

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Two-Week Price Inflation in Argentina hits 30%, US Products Lead the Way; Currency Devaluations Hit P&G Earnings

MishTalk

Forbes explains Venezuela, Argentina Currency Devaluations Hit P&G Expected Sales And Earnings. Due to devaluations in currencies like the Venezuelan bolivar, Argentine peso and Turkish lira, to name a few, the consumer product giant said that it is lowering its outlook for its full-year 2014 sales and earnings.

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Would a Bund by any other name smell as sweet?

Tom Spencer

ON WEDNESDAY November 23rd, an auction of German government bonds (known as “Bunds”) managed to sell only €3.6 Firstly, the German Debt Agency ( Finanzagentur ) normally retains part of any new Bund offer, so a partial sale of Bunds is pretty standard. Would a Bund by any other name smell as sweet? in Economics.

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Consultant Ninja: A Simple Question about the Credit Markets.

Consultant Ninja

Heres my understanding of the current TARP/TARPII/PPIP/etc plans: The major "sick" banks wont lend to businesses, because their balance sheets are tied up with bad assets that they cant sell. The government will buy those assets, freeing up the major banks to loan again to businesses. Posted by Consultant Ninja. at 7:39 PM.

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Descent of the Global Monetary System

Tom Spencer

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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