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

MishTalk

Patrick Housing Crash News Top Housing and Commercial Real Estate News. Balanced Budget Ammendment Sign the Balanced Budget Petition. Bay Area Real Estate Trends. Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation? Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market. Pension Tsunami.

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Coronavirus & Consulting Offers

Tom Spencer

During the dotcom bubble, the financial crisis, and the real estate bubble, what did consulting firms do? They put their new hires through training, offered a later start date for those who wanted one, and offered to pay for additional classes or to learn a language while work picked back up. Today, not so much.

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Coastal Cities Are Increasingly Vulnerable, and So Is the Economy that Relies on Them

Harvard Business

.” GreenBiz founder Joel Makower defines a stranded asset as “a financial term that describes something that has become obsolete or nonperforming well ahead of its useful life, and must be recorded on a company’s balance sheet as a loss of profit.” For now, Miami property buyers don’t see it.

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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

We can see this mindset at work in China’s management of two recent bubbles: the real estate market and local government debt. In addressing the real estate market bubble, Beijing has opted to keep insolvent developers alive by forcing their lenders to roll over the loans.

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

MishTalk

Investors’ attraction to riskier credit also spawned greater issuance in assets such as payment-in-kind notes and mortgage real estate investment trusts (mREITs). Historical evidence shows that this rarely happens following a balance sheet recession. Restoring sustainable global growth poses significant challenges.