MishTalk

OCTOBER 21, 2014

It is that money that has no counterpart on the balance sheet of a central bank indicating that it''s a liability. Mike "Mish" Shedlock [link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. From this perspective of the bond market, Europe has become Japan.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 26, 2013

Inquiring minds are monitoring the Fed''s Balance Sheet. One more week like this and the FED balance sheet will be $1 trillion more than last year at this time. Policy makers are testing a new tool intended to improve their control of near-term borrowing costs. click on chart for sharper image.

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MishTalk

MARCH 19, 2014

Adair Turner, former Chairman of the United Kingdom’s Financial Services Authority, and current member of the UK’s Financial Policy Committee and the House of Lords proposes a need to Rethink the Monetization Taboo. The Fed’s tapering merely slows the growth of its balance sheet.

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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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Martinka Consulting

APRIL 3, 2020

For most business owners I’m guessing your strategy is off track and any exit planning is on the back burner given our minds are on the ramifications of the COVID-19 virus. For tips on how to minimize damage I interviewed my friend Dan Weedin, who is a crisis and disaster management expert (you can see more about Dan at www.danweedin.com).

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Many consulting, corporate strategy, and corporate development roles require the interviewee to go through an M&A case study. If there are debts owed by each organization, then the M&A process may increase the total balance sheet debt of the combined company. Conclusion. Image: Pixabay.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Having already cut interest rates to record lows and saying they can go no lower, Draghi is now focused on boosting the ECB’s balance sheet. We are quite confident that the impact on our balance sheet size will be adequate, will be significant, will be sizable,” Draghi said. trillion] more than the current level.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

Venezuela uses a de-facto dual-exchange rate system, but policy changes recently enacted by the Venezuelan government are affecting the way that certain imports — i.e, Specifically, the policy changes dictate that the state-run currency rate between the bolivare and the dollar is now 11.4 certain P&G products — are exchanged.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Central bank policy remains: "If it doesn''t work, do more of it". ECB President Mario Draghi said that policy makers “won’t tolerate” a prolonged period of low inflation, and that officials discussed “all assets but gold” as potential targets for purchases. But Central Bankers do not care about losses or failures.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 26, 2015

Willem Buiter on Failure of Monetary Policy We believe that a common factor in the relatively low response of real economic activity to changes in asset prices and yields is probably the fact that the euro area remains highly leveraged. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Paradoxically, “data” appear everywhere but on the balance sheet and income statement. Adding to complications, data, technology, and people are very different sorts of assets, requiring different management styles. Except for very few, this hasn’t happened. It takes a lot to succeed with data.

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MishTalk

JULY 11, 2014

Monetary policy is testing its outer limits. The normalisation of the policy stance has hardly started. Historical evidence shows that this rarely happens following a balance sheet recession. Accommodative monetary policy has had an ambiguous impact on the adjustment to lower debt ratios.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The European Central Bank’s first offer of cheap four-year loans has fallen short of expectations, dealing a blow to president Mario Draghi’s hope of sustaining the eurozone’s ailing economy by expanding the central bank’s balance sheet.

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MishTalk

APRIL 17, 2015

Bernanke also made the case in his presentation for keeping the Fed’s balance sheet big in the aftermath of the financial crisis. [Is Most other major central banks have permanently large balance sheets and are able to implement monetary policy without problems,” he said.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

The balance sheet of the European Central Bank has fallen by €553bn over the past year as banks repay money that they no longer want, either because ECB funds are too costly in a near-deflationary world or because lenders are being compelled by regulators to shrink their books. The US and China are withdrawing stimulus on purpose.

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MishTalk

MAY 19, 2014

Corporate balance sheets are in excellent shape, and there is still an ample cash cushion available to fund operations in the event of a growth setback. We continue to monitor three key factors for evidence of a turn in default risk: our Corporate Health monitor, bank lending standards, and Fed policy.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

When I began investing, one looked at the real property on balance sheets. Reader Rick comments on the moral hazards of Fed policy. The title of Megan McArdle''s article is "Banking Without Risk Is Impossible", yet she supports a policy that creates moral hazards.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 22, 2013

But I view this as a failure of the policy, not a success. Inflation Benefit 3 (?): "Balance sheet recession" might go away! Balance sheet recession" might go away!? We have a balance sheet recession precisely because of an inflationary asset bubble gone bust. Inflation benefits conservatives!?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

As a practical matter, for example, these changes in the global policy regime are forcing multinational corporations to scale back and sell parts of their international operations. Each of these shifts have consequences for how today’s multinational corporations should manage themselves.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 8, 2014

Participants were most concerned about the marginal cost of additional asset purchases arising from risks to financial stability, pointing out that a highly accommodative stance of monetary policy could provide an incentive for excessive risk-taking in the financial sector. Fiscal policy continued to restrain economic growth.

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MishTalk

JUNE 26, 2013

Draghi Announces ECB Exit From Easing Remains Far Off; Think the Fed Has an Exit Strategy? On our policy stance, let me say that its been accommodative in the past, it is accommodative in the present time and will stay accommodative for the foreseeable future," Draghi said. 4th Quarter GDP barely crossed the zero line with 0.4%

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Despite the unprecedented increase in the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet, growth in M2 over the first nine months of this year fell below its average rate of growth over the past 115 years, a time when the growth in the monetary base was stable and quite modest. That strategy cannot possibly work as Japan has proven for decades.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 26, 2014

Since they have maintained artificial exchange rates – coupled with capital controls, price controls and other coercive and self-defeating economic policies – people have of course felt it necessary to get their money out any way they can.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

“My personal belief is the trucking industry needs to realize production of goods will have ups and downs,” Satish Jindel, principal of SJ Consulting , which closely tracks industry pricing, told Logistics Management. According to the SEP, “each participant’s projections are based on his or her assessment of appropriate monetary policy.”

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Possible explanations for this pattern include missed warning signals about the buildup of imbalances before the crisis, overestimation of the efficacy of monetary policy following a balance-sheet recession, and the natural tendency of forecasters to extrapolate from recent data. This is a general statement.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

In response to Eurozone Target2 Imbalances Creeping Back Up , I received a nice email from Dr. Eric Dor, Director of Economic Studies at IESEG School of Management (Lille and Paris France) regarding the imbalances in Italy. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Any model that predicts China’s future GDP growth must include, if it is to be valid, a variable that reflects estimates of the amount of hidden losses buried in the banks’ balance sheets. Mike "Mish" Shedlock [link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management.

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MishTalk

JULY 16, 2014

The Hoisington Investment Management, Second Quarter 2014 Review and Outlook makes the case " Treasury Bond Undervalued ". trillion and the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing policy which added net $3.63 Rather than repairing its balance sheet by reducing debt, the U.S. economy is starting to increase its leverage.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Bernanke made that claim in response to a question if he was confident that QE (the policy of buying bonds to drive down long-term interest rates with short-term rates already at zero), would heal the economy. economy based on relationships that are indistinguishable from someone sneezing on a sheet of graph paper. Notice something.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 21, 2016

It will be necessary to review and therefore possibly reconsider our monetary policy stance at our next meeting in March,” said Draghi. [In ECB Oil "Rally" In Pictures ECB Bond Purchases Draghi Has No Clothes If padding the central bank balance sheet causes inflation, then why the hell hasn't it?

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MishTalk

JUNE 9, 2015

Data Sources: Illinois Policy Institute, 2010 Census, Chicago Budget. Chart #2: Growing Payments While the current state of the city’s balance sheet is dismal, the real problem relates to what is expected to develop over the next decade. million to managers and consultants in 2013 — returns have fallen far short of expectations.

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MishTalk

MARCH 24, 2014

But to invest our clients'' money on the basis of speculation being driven by the Fed''s misguided policies doesn''t seem like the best thing to do with our clients'' money. Mike "Mish" Shedlock [link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Grantham : No.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Banks, fund managers and other institutions in the interbank market will be able to trade the CDs, but non-financial companies and retail investors will be barred. A hitherto strong focus on managing interest rates, even with the occasional liquidity squall, has meant that credit growth and leverage have continued to rise rapidly.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

In 1980, Jim Baron, now a professor at the Yale School of Management, and William Bielby, now a professor at the University of Illinois, published a seminal article on firms and inequality. public policies do little to incentivize firms to take a longer-term view of their workforce. Presently, many U.S. three to five years).

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MishTalk

APRIL 6, 2015

Our difference is he calls the present environment deflation, whereas I say a very destructive asset deflation will eventually result from current Fed policies. Its monetary policy is counterproductive, to put it politely. They are being victimized through the insane monetary policy of the Fed. Truth to this?

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

The strategy seems to be working. This year the company announced plans to drop support for all but the latest version of Internet Explorer, a policy that would bring it into parity with most of its rivals. The trouble is, that policy doesn''t take effect until January 2016. percent at the beginning of the year.

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MishTalk

APRIL 6, 2015

New York Fed President William Dudley''s comments were the latest sign that a string of disappointing economic data, including a sharp drop in jobs growth last month, is derailing a Fed plan to tighten monetary policy around mid-year after more than six years of rock-bottom rates. It does not mean that monetary policy will be tight.

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