MishTalk

MAY 19, 2014

Corporate balance sheets are in excellent shape, and there is still an ample cash cushion available to fund operations in the event of a growth setback. Mike "Mish" Shedlock [link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management.

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MishTalk

JUNE 27, 2013

During the coming week I believe that a significant amount of Wealth Management Prodiucts (WMP) will mature, and because of asset/liability mismatched this WMP must be rolled over. The most important effect is likely to be on demand for wealth management products. 2009-12-09 Tech Ticker. 2009-10-30 King World News.

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Analysis Trends Real Estate Banking 68

MishTalk

JULY 2, 2013

It’s very easy for a confident-sounding analyst, fund manager or professor to say something on TV that can throw off the best laid plans of investors. Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. 2009-12-09 Tech Ticker. 2009-10-30 King World News.

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Trends Analysis Real Estate Financial 61

Harvard Business

AUGUST 12, 2016

Most of these companies are private and don’t publish their balance sheets. But a new analysis from the German Savings Banks Association shows that, in the last fiscal year, its midsize company clients managed, on average, profit margins of 7.3%. Mittelstand managers give their workers a great deal of their time.

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Industry Balance Sheet Enterprise Recruitment 70

MishTalk

MARCH 24, 2014

The next bust will be unlike any other, because the Fed and other centrals banks around the world have taken on all this leverage that was out there and put it on their balance sheets. Please consider this Forbes Interview of Jeremy Grantham , by Steve Forbes, from 2009. We have never had this before. They will be cheap again.

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Marketing Balance Sheet Interviews Benchmarking 69

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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Banking Balance Sheet Productivity Financial 71

MishTalk

JULY 10, 2013

Participants also described their views regarding the appropriate path of the Federal Reserves balance sheet. Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. 2009-12-09 Tech Ticker. 2009-10-30 King World News. 2009-05-15: My Speech at Google.

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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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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

economy based on relationships that are indistinguishable from someone sneezing on a sheet of graph paper. Those who managed to get to that point were in for a nice down to earth set of comments and graphs that followed. There is no way to undo this outcome – only to manage the consequences. 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

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

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

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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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2017

His bottom line: “For a manager running a nonfinancial business, the proposed reforms to Dodd-Frank are probably a bad trade-off.” 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.

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