MishTalk

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

In addition to holding its benchmark rate at 0.25%, the ECB also left the rate it pays on bank deposits unchanged at zero. Just like 2007, very few people even recognize bubble exist. ECB president Mario Draghi said: "We have to dispense with this idea of deflation. The question is - is there deflation? The answer is no." in December.

Balance Sheet 69

Balance Sheet Banking Retail Policies 69

MishTalk

MARCH 24, 2014

We produced pretty good numbers, but they’re way behind the benchmark. This bubble is in a rare class with 1929, 2000, and 2007. And that’s precisely what we did in ’98 and ’99. We didn’t dance long enough and got out of the growth stocks completely, and underperformed. And we were fired in droves.

Marketing 66

Marketing Balance Sheet Interviews Benchmarking 66

MishTalk

AUGUST 24, 2015

The benchmark -- called the CBOE Emerging Markets ETF Volatility Index -- more than tripled as trading began at 9:30 a.m. The selloff in developing nations took a turn for the worse on Monday as Chinese equities fell the most since 2007. in New York. The measure jumped 44 percent to 47.88 at 11:03 a.m in the biggest gain on record.

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Marketing Benchmarking Resumes Development 28

MishTalk

JULY 11, 2014

This share was higher than during the pre-crisis period from 2005 to mid-2007. Indeed, there is evidence that those countries in which policy rates have been lower relative to traditional benchmarks, which take account of output and inflation developments, have also seen the strongest credit booms.

Balance Sheet 72

Balance Sheet Financial Banking Policies 72

MishTalk

DECEMBER 21, 2013

I have been writing on these issues since 2007 and have never found reason to criticise the Coalition, but this action is naive, irresponsible and indicates the government is captured by the big business-big union nexus. Looking for madness? Baggage handlers for QANTAS earn up to $85k per annum.

Enterprise 60

Enterprise Government Industry Automotive 60

MishTalk

AUGUST 24, 2015

After spending about $200bn buying shares to prop up falling equity prices over the past seven weeks, Beijing capitulated to market forces on Monday by choosing not to intervene as the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index fell 8.5 The fall was the worst since February 2007.

Banking 28

Banking Policies Benchmarking Government 28

MishTalk

DECEMBER 25, 2015

It has now taken the first step toward returning its benchmark policy interest rate – the federal funds rate – to a level that imparts neither stimulus nor restraint to the US economy. After an extended period of extraordinary monetary accommodation, the US Federal Reserve has begun the long march back to normalization.

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Financial Marketing Banking Government 28

MishTalk

JANUARY 14, 2015

The typical sign of recession, an inverted yield curve with 3-month treasuries yielding more than 30-year treasuries (we saw in 2000 and again in 2006-2007) is not going to happen in the absence of rate hikes. There’s a 67 percent chance the Fed will raise its benchmark rate to at least 0.5 percent yesterday. percent in the U.K.,

Retail 28

Retail Sales Benchmarking Banking 28

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. Given there shouldn''t be a Fed in the first place, it would be more accurate to state " Yellen and Summers are uniquely unqualified for the job ". Here we are. The broad U.S.

Conference 72

Conference Banking Government Balance Sheet 72