MishTalk

JANUARY 28, 2014

"Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the world''s largest bank by assets, said on Thursday that it has no plans to use its own money to repay investors in a troubled off-balance-sheet investment product that it helped to market." Investors should have taken a hit. Certainly the promised 10% yield was too good to be true.

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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. Consumer Spending in December Weakest Since 2009.

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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. Let's take a look, emphasis mine. Bernanke replied " Well, effectively.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Without paying banks interest to hold excess reserves idle in the banking system, the Fed could reduce its balance sheet by more than one-third (over $1.4 In the market cycle since 2009, however, central banks aggressively and intentionally promoted speculation by holding interest rates at zero. Notice something.

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MishTalk

APRIL 6, 2015

If you consolidate all balance sheets in a country (including that of the national treasury), then all liquid assets will be wiped out, with the sole exception of gold. Gold is the only asset that is not duplicated as a liability in the balance sheet of someone else.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 7, 2013

Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation? Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market. The risk premiums of risky securities have become unsustainably compressed in the process, and the Feds balance sheet has metastasized to $3.5 Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation?

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MishTalk

APRIL 1, 2015

The Metered Parking System reserve funds were established in 2009 in the amount of $1.15 From 2009 to 2011, the city used $320 million from the Metered Parking Reserves. Chicago used interest rate swaps on its 2003, 2005, 2007, and 2009 bond deals, apparently as part of a synthetic fixed rate strategy. (

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MishTalk

AUGUST 6, 2013

Reader Question: Does the Fed Balance Sheet Properly Reflect QE Announcements? The feds balance sheet doesnt reflect it. The balance sheet was up $720 billion from Aug 1, 2012 to Aug 1, 2013 ($309B in treasuries and $393B in MBS) but that is only $60B per month. Feds Balance Sheet. QE History.

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MishTalk

JUNE 26, 2013

Bernanke says the US economy is solid enough that the Fed can begin tapering its balance sheet purchases later this year. Given the stock and bond market bubbles the Fed has created, the Fed of course should taper (not that it should ever have expanded its balance sheet in the first place). 2009-12-09 Tech Ticker.

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MishTalk

JUNE 27, 2013

But one way or another we do have to write down the huge hidden losses in the country’s balance sheet, and this will mean not a collapse but rather many years of Japanese-style slow growth as the system grinds its way though its excesses. the country’s balance sheet, and this will mean not a collapse but.

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MishTalk

JUNE 28, 2013

While these reforms may improve FHAs balance sheet over the long term, they would also reduce market liquidity, which in turn could cause home prices to fall. 2009-12-09 Tech Ticker. 2009-10-30 King World News. 2009-05-15: My Speech at Google. December 2009 (93). November 2009 (87). October 2009 (81).

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MishTalk

JUNE 30, 2013

China Manufacturing Conditions Deteriorate, New Export Orders Fall at Fastest Rate Since March 2009. New export orders fall at the joint-fastest rate since March 2009. And the recent cash crunch in the interbank market is likely to slow expansion of off-balance sheet lending, further exacerbating funding conditions for SMEs.

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MishTalk

JULY 2, 2013

Contrary to 1979/1980, the current gold bull market will unlikely end due to a sudden strong rise in interest rates, as the balance sheets of governments, households and corporations are tainted by huge debt. 2009-12-09 Tech Ticker. 2009-10-30 King World News. 2009-05-15: My Speech at Google. December 2009 (93).

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MishTalk

JULY 10, 2013

Participants also described their views regarding the appropriate path of the Federal Reserves balance sheet. 2009-12-09 Tech Ticker. 2009-10-30 King World News. 2009-05-15: My Speech at Google. December 2009 (93). November 2009 (87). October 2009 (81). September 2009 (72). oftwominds.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

UPS Freight , the fifth-largest LTL, reported tonnage off 10 percent (matching the record decline reported in the 2009 3Q during the depth of the Great Recession) and shipments down 5 percent year over year (the worst drop since 2008 fourth quarter). The SEP growth forecast for 2009 did not turn negative until January 2009.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2017

What we saw in 2008 and 2009 was, once the crisis hit, it required very large measures on the part of central banks and governments to keep the situation from spiraling out of control. It’s also untrue because the requirement for more capital is about how banks fund their balance sheets, not the size of the balance sheet.

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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. Assets in exchange-traded products backed by gold fell 33 percent to the lowest since 2009 amid sales by billionaires George Soros and John Paulson." Here we are.

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