Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

My friends and I walked out of the Big Short several years ago feeling like a group of global financial crisis experts. Once the housing market began to collapse, mortgages defaulted, and MBS began to fail. To conserve capital, banks institute a lending freeze, and bank balance sheets contract as existing bank loans are repaid.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

In the past, marketers have struggled to deliver the higher response rates they need from existing customers — a smaller group than potential new customers. Digital channels now allow companies to fine-tune marketing messages based on observed behavior. Take a balance-sheet view.

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MishTalk

JULY 30, 2014

That’s because it shifts some pollution — and the burden for cleaning it — onto another other country’s balance sheet. This is a classic case of political greenwashing,” said Dirk Jansen, a spokesman for BUND, a German environmental group. So, too, are the prices on the carbon market in Europe. In the U.S.,

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MishTalk

JANUARY 26, 2015

When black markets in currencies develop, you can be 100% sure the official exchange rate is overinflated. bolivars to the dollar, the floating rate of exchange is 50 bolivars to the dollar, and the black market rate is 184 bolivars to the dollar. In Venezuela, the fixed rate of exchange is 6.3 bolivars to the dollar.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

As the electric power industry shifts from a model where individual local utilities have a monopoly on electricity provision in a region to a much more dynamic market, these prosumers will be able to make and sell a variety of obscure new products and services like frequency regulation. California, Texas, and most of the U.S.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 17, 2014

This is not necessarily a problem if the decline was expected because a business is sustained from cashflow, not profit, and long term growth can be pursued through capital appreciation, which shows up on the balance sheet and not on the profit and loss statement. Shrinking market size. Falling Prices. Increased competition.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 14, 2019

The more management wants to standardize on any agile approach, or add control or synchronization points, or require another group/team to deploy, the more management creates local optimization. If you persist in using “resource” instead of humans, you allow the language of the balance sheet to drive your management decisions.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 23, 2015

That would shrink the tradable market for German bonds in a year when the debt agency already planned to reduce the amount of conventional bonds outstanding by 8 billion euros. We might not be too far off the German bund market looking like the Swiss one, with a negative yield out to 10 years. It’s pretty crazy.”

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

In 2015, Global Trade Alert, an independent trade-monitoring group, cited at least 644 discriminatory trade measures imposed by the G20 economies with the U.S. Meanwhile the Institute of International Finance forecasted net capital flows for emerging markets in 2015 would be negative for the first time since 1988. at the forefront.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 11, 2018

On the flip side, a strategic transaction can catapult a company into first-mover position, give a speed to market advantage over rivals, and potentially let a larger company run away with a new market. There are a host of things that lead to failure — financial losses, stock drops, lost market opportunities, fizzled dreams.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 9, 2020

The smaller the group of people, the easier it is to reach agreement on what to use as money. Australia, Canada, the EU, Japan, Mexico, the UK, and America), when they devalue their currency it tends to weaken in the foreign exchange market, making the country more competitive in global trade. Within my family, chocolate can work.

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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." Investors should have taken a hit. Certainly the promised 10% yield was too good to be true.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 12, 2015

Ally, whose defunct GMAC Mortgage unit was one of the biggest lenders of subprime mortgages in the run-up to the 2008 housing bust, will inch back into direct home loan originations next year, the bank’s Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Brown said this week at a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. financial conference in New York.

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Harvard Business

MAY 28, 2018

Then a new CFO joined the company: Masashi Oka, a financial industry veteran who had played a key role in transforming Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group-owned Union Bank in the US. ” The company took note and duly committed to reducing costs at a rate exceeding market contraction. What he heard was uncomfortable.

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Harvard Business

JULY 17, 2018

It’s no wonder, then, that young people are anxious about their ability to compete in the job market. At the highest level, emotional competence involves persuading individuals and groups by evoking emotion (while simultaneously recognizing that some team members don’t buy into what you’re saying).

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 12, 2016

Most of these companies are private and don’t publish their balance sheets. But when it comes to little-known leaders in their market, Germany has 1,307 “hidden champions,” nine times as many as those two countries combined. Great Britain and France each have more. They set ambitious goals.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 10, 2015

When the bank reopened its shares plummeted as much as 14%, with the Spanish stock market down about 4%. The CBMV lifted the suspension on Friday, accompanied with a sharp drop in the stock market. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction.

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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. Deposit rates are still low and the stock market has been uncooperative. Bulls think China is on the mend. Bullish Arguments. Property Prices Rising.

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MishTalk

JULY 10, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Balanced Budget Ammendment Sign the Balanced Budget Petition. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Following is a snip from the June 18-19, 2013 Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee , released today. Daily Bell.

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MishTalk

JULY 10, 2015

Employment Slack It is my judgment that the lower level of the unemployment rate today probably does not fully capture the extent of slack remaining in the labor market--in other words, how far away we are from a full-employment economy. For example, many young adults continue to live with their parents.

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MishTalk

JUNE 16, 2015

The Bank of Greece has not published the end of May balance sheet yet. The confidential plans were circulating over the weekend and have the backing of 30 MPs from the Aristeri Platforma or 'Left Platform', as well as other hard-line groupings in Syriza's spectrum. If it is, then the increase since end April is only €3 billion.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2017

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. According to Bain’s Macro Trends Group, the global supply of capital stands at nearly 10 times global GDP. Vincent Tsui for HBR.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 14, 2017

Tokens are grouped into blocks (for example, every 10 minutes) and distributed across the network, updating every ledger at once. First, blockchain could help relieve a large balance-sheet liability that many in the industry are facing. Early adopters could benefit considerably.

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MishTalk

MARCH 17, 2014

Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets taught me much of what I know about global trade. Mish : Despite the obvious casino-like structure of global equity and bond markets, the poker game analogy is an extremely poor one. I am very appreciative. I tend to agree with most of his views.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 12, 2020

Below we will take a brief look at the mainstream view of macroeconomics, the nature of the Cantillon Effect, and how it leads to predictable – and some would say ‘unjust’ – enrichment of certain groups in a society at the expense of others. Mainstream Economics: Keynesianism. trillion over the last 5 months.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Since 2007, Federal Open Market Committee participants have been persistently too optimistic about future U.S. I have mentioned that numerous times in recent years, even after it was long understood the recession of 2007-2009 was a balance-sheet recession. Economists are among the most optimistic groups on the planet.

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MishTalk

JUNE 26, 2015

He becomes CEO of the group, and I have no hesitation seeing the baton passed to him. Rebuttal Highlights BullionVault's net assets are comprised of intercompany loans (yes, there is money reported as loans moving back and forth between the company and the CEO at above market interest rates). 00001% of the world's financial assets.

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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. A similar crash in public opinion awaits Bernanke for fueling one of the biggest, if not the biggest stock and bond market bubbles in history. Here we are.

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