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Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation?

MishTalk

What Has Government Done to Our Money? Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation? Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market. The risk premiums of risky securities have become unsustainably compressed in the process, and the Feds balance sheet has metastasized to $3.5 Home Builders.

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Coronavirus & Consulting Offers

Tom Spencer

The travel and hospitality industries have been decimated, stock markets around the world have tanked, and governments struggle to combat this devil on so many fronts. If the firms don’t have a strong balance sheet, if they foresee a potential cash flow problem, or if they have clients in particularly hard hit industries, I’d be concerned.

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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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Has COVID-19 Derailed Your Planning? Tips From a Crisis Management Expert

Martinka Consulting

Know what’s happening with governments and their policies. A gym is holding virtual training sessions. In the future he will do pandemic training as part of disaster planning and his final words to me were, “Talk about things other than COVID-19 and be a distraction to others.”. Employee safety is number one.

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BIS Slams the Fed; Ridiculous Question of the Day: "Is The Fed Going To Attempt A Controlled Collapse?"

MishTalk

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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940 Chinese Firms Halt Trading; China Allows Houses as Margin, Bans Use of Term "Equity Disaster"; Two Rules, Two Questions

MishTalk

Key China Actions December 28: Rule tweak gives banks more room to lend January 22: Bank of China taps reverse repos to target demand February 4: Bank of China cuts reserve ration March 8: China announces trillion Yuan local government debt swap March 31: Survey shows average investor in rally did not finish high school April 15: GDP shows "only" 6.5%

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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business

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. 3 – Training stakeholders to support growth.