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What a Business Financial Statement Can Tell You About the Health of Your Business

Tom Spencer

When you run your own small business, it can be difficult to keep an objective distance from what you do. You have your big one-year and … Continue reading "What a Business Financial Statement Can Tell You About the Health of Your Business".

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business

Even if you don’t need to know a lot about finance to do your day-to-day job, the more conversant you are on the subject, the better off you’ll be, according to Richard Ruback, a professor at Harvard Business School and the coauthor of the HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business. Overcome your fears. Play with numbers.

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Can the Fed Really Print Money? What Would Negative Interest Rates Do?

MishTalk

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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Banks – Industry Overview

Tom Spencer

Today, most global banks are diversified financial institutions with operations beyond the scope of normal banking, and may have a business mix more reflective of the following: Personal & Commercial Banking (Retail/Commercial) – this will be the main focus of this post. Commercial vs Retail Banking. Funding and the Loan Mix.

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Bulls and Bears Debate China: Property Bubble Expands Again; GDP Growth Picks Up; Economic Recovery Underway? No Says Michael Pettis

MishTalk

This means that the foreign currency reserves are simply the asset side of a balance sheet against which there are liabilities. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.'