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Fed Openly Discusses "Permanently High Balance Sheet"; Lie Finally Admitted

MishTalk

Merits of Not Shrinking the Balloon When the Fed first launched QE, they stated they had the "tools" necessary to shrink their ballooning balance sheet. Now, however, there is a new twist to the debate, with some policymakers and outside experts saying that there are reasons to keep the balance sheet big.

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New Tools! More Pure Bank Profit!

MishTalk

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. It proposes a new tool to pay banks even more interest on money banks don''t lend and cannot use (as an alternative to shrinking money supply).

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Customers are your ‘ace in the hole’ during uncertain times

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After years of immense growth, there are signs of economic headwinds across industries , with higher interest rates, stock market declines, pandemic challenges, labor shortages, global political instability, and more. Firms are becoming more risk-averse and deliberate in their spending plans through the end of the year.

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China Cash Crunch Eases, For How Long? Three Things China Needs to Avoid; When can Beijing Truly move to Market-Determined Interest Rates?

MishTalk

China''s Move to Market-Set Rates Let''s step back to December 8 and look at China Relaxes Grip on Interest Rates China is relaxing its grip on interest rates with the launch of a financial instrument that allows banks to trade deposits with each other at market-determined prices. China’s credit boom is still in full swing.

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How the Great Recession Changed Banking

Harvard Business

The market panicked. That strengthened investment banks’ balance sheets by forcing them to scale back and to change the nature of the risks they take. This is most apparent in the credit markets, where revenues have shrunk by more than 40% from pre-crisis peaks. HBR Staff/CSA Plastock/Getty Images.

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5 Ways to Increase Your Cross-Selling

Harvard Business

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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How to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience

Harvard Business

Strewn about the table were probably the tools of your trade: reams of data, balance sheets and P&Ls. None of the tools we use to evaluate companies work very well without good record keeping. Create a bull market. Financial markets boom when increasing numbers of investors want in. Insight Center.