Martinka Consulting

APRIL 19, 2016

Sales were down from 2014 and expenses were up. His balance sheet is a mess. Last month a friend referred me to a business owner wanting to sell his company. His primary motivation was he’s burned out and the driving force for the burn out is 2015 was not a good year financially. But this is not the point of the story.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Interventions under these programmes will start in October 2014. The detailed modalities of these programmes will be announced after the Governing Council meeting of 2 October 2014. in August 2014, after 0.4% The September 2014 ECB staff macroeconomic projections for the euro area foresee annual HICP inflation at 0.6%

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Draghiz e: "The test is credible because the ultimate purpose of it is to restore or strengthen private sector confidence in the soundness of the banks, in the quality of their balance sheets" Mish : The test is credible because we say it is. French reluctance is justified by the enormous exposure with their banks in recent years.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Hello Mish Since August 2014 the target2 liabilities of the bank of Italia to the Eurosystem are again on an upward trend. billion since July 2014. It is therefore useful to examine the balance of payments of Italy to find out the exact cause of the recent surge of the Target2 liabilities of the Bank of Italia. Eric Dor Writes.

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MishTalk

JULY 16, 2014

The Hoisington Investment Management, Second Quarter 2014 Review and Outlook makes the case " Treasury Bond Undervalued ". Projecting further into 2014, the evidence of a continual lackluster expansion is clear. range, arithmetic suggests that real GDP in 2014 will expand between 1.0% versus the average output level of 2013.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Seidner commented that 100% of strategists were negative on bonds heading into 2014 but I can name a couple exceptions, notably Lacy Hunt at Van Hoisington. It is that money that has no counterpart on the balance sheet of a central bank indicating that it''s a liability. Grant concluded with the idea " Gold is the anti-debt.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

See More Videos > See More Videos > Tackle the balance sheet. “Take an interest in the balance sheet and then do the due diligence to understand it,” he says. Experiment with the numbers on your organization’s balance sheet by going through a series of “what if?”

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

For example, at the end of its 2015 fiscal year, Apple’s balance sheet stated tangible assets of $290 billion as a contribution to its annual revenues, with approximately $141 billion worth of intangible assets — a combination of intellectual capital, brand equity, and (investor and consumer) goodwill.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 8, 2015

China's Forex Reserves Note that China's Forex reserves are down about $500 billion from the 2014 peak. If China isn't going to expand its balance sheet anymore, that means it has to stop buying treasuries. That's what's going to happen in 2014. I did not understand in 2004, 2008, 2012, 2014, and I still don't know now.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

An updated study by Ahir and Loungani (2014) finds that the private-sector’s record of failure to predict recessions remained intact through 2008 and 2009. When the bubble bursts, the resulting debt overhang forces borrowers to repair their balance sheets via reduced spending or default. A study by Alessi, et al.

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MishTalk

JUNE 9, 2015

Chart #2: Growing Payments While the current state of the city’s balance sheet is dismal, the real problem relates to what is expected to develop over the next decade. Chicago pension plan payments are expected to double from 2014 to 2015, and will then continue to rise for another decade before they begin to decline.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Heading into 2014, Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets remains adamant that growth estimates for China are too high and that rebalancing (while necessary), implies lower growth than most expect. I wish my readers a great 2014. It is clear that Beijing recognizes the problem of excess capacity. Stay tuned.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

I did a search for the term "browser war" and discovered this December 19, 2014 ZDNet article: Did the browser wars finally end in 2014? The fighting might have finally ended in 2014. And in 2014, all those players seem to have dug in to well-entrenched positions. Mish Traffic by Location Browser War Over? times higher.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 26, 2013

They are happy for the financial sector to experiment with new products on- and off-balance sheet, allowing the system gently to displace state allocation of capital through decreed interest rates, loan quotas, loan-to-deposit ratios and specific credit restrictions.

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Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2018

Walter Thompson Company for $566 million in 1987 and Ogilvy for $864 million in 1989 — big acquisitions that stretched the company’s balance sheet. After that, however, WPP practiced programmatic M&A, turning it into a strong muscle.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 21, 2016

Speaking in a news conference, Mr. Draghi said the stimulus measures undertaken by the central bank since June 2014—and topped up most recently in December—had “strengthened the euro area’s resilience to recent, global economic shocks.” The euro fell against the U.S. There is absolutely no economic benefit to rising prices.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 12, 2015

Today, Ally has a pristine balance sheet and is focused on its strengths with its leading domestic automotive services and direct banking franchises.”

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Furthermore, there will be new complexities in managing the balance sheet and navigating wider financing decisions; particularly as the “carry trade” (the strategy of borrowing at low interest rates in developed countries and investing in higher yielding emerging markets), becomes less attractive.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 10, 2015

Draghize : "The test is credible because the ultimate purpose of it is to restore or strengthen private sector confidence in the soundness of the banks, in the quality of their balance sheets" Mish : The test is credible because we say it is. Stress Tests Announced On October 27, 2014 alleged stress tests were a glowing success.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2016

Strewn about the table were probably the tools of your trade: reams of data, balance sheets and P&Ls. You and the rest of your team likely poured over reports and spreadsheets, facts and figures.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 9, 2013

On Sunday lawmakers passed the 2014 budget without showing it to the IMF or the commission as demanded by EU rules. Having lost access to the capital markets, the Greek government relied on the bailout funds to pay its bills. With the public accounts edging closer to a primary surplus, the government feels it has a stronger hand to play.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Banking union won’t be ready for the results of the ECB health check in November 2014. He notes that the ECB will end up as "supervisor" of 128 banks with an aggregate balance sheet "somewhere between €26 trillion and €27 trillion." How does this relate to the ECB-led bank health check? How big is the proposed bailout fund? €55

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MishTalk

JULY 10, 2013

percent for 2014, and 2.9 Participants also described their views regarding the appropriate path of the Federal Reserves balance sheet. Many other participants anticipated that it likely would be appropriate to continue purchases into 2014. percent at the end of 2014, and 5.8 The Outlook for Economic Activity.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Congratulations, you went ahead in 2014. equity strategist and the firm's portfolio strategy research team note that narrow market breadth, with just a handful of strong performers carrying the load for a slew of weaker performers, tends to favor high-quality stocks with strong balance sheets and lower volatility.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 26, 2014

The interest rate burden on Chinese businesses and state-related entities has certainly been much higher in 2014 than it was for most of this century. This isn’t the first time, of course, that the balance-sheet dynamics during a growth miracle have created unrealistic evaluations about the quality of policymaking.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

With its balance sheet totalling nearly 1.6 The ECB became the first major central bank to venture below zero in June 2014, and it now charges banks 0.2 The big Swiss banks passed on some of the pain from the Swiss central bank’s -0.75 percent to hold their cash overnight.

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MishTalk

APRIL 6, 2015

Another significant shock is the nearly 15 percent appreciation of the exchange value of the dollar since mid-2014. Near-zero short-term interest rates and a larger Federal Reserve balance sheet were designed to be a temporary extraordinary treatment to help the economy regain its vitality, and not a permanent palliative.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 24, 2017

We taught lending officers how to talk to businesses that were afraid that taking debt onto their balance sheets was riskier than maintaining a flat-growth business. In the second place, even if the stakeholders understand how they benefit from communicating about growth, they need to learn how to effectively talk the talk.

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MishTalk

APRIL 1, 2015

From 2010 to 2014, Chicago’s general obligation bond deals included over $235 million of capitalized interest, simply as a means for the city to avoid servicing its debt in the short term. It is not a balance sheet test, but a cash flow test. The city did receive a series of up-front payments, however.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 9, 2020

In March, American food prices rose at their fastest rate since 2014. However, when confidence eventually returns and the rate of spending starts to rise, at that point, the Federal Reserve will not be able to reduce the money supply by shrinking the size of its balance sheet. Most notably, food prices.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2018

output comes from fracking operations that have cut costs dramatically since slumping prices in 2014 forced dozens of companies into bankruptcy. Most major producers with large balance sheets will likely hedge their bets and attempt both. The soaring U.S. These increasingly efficient survivors now represent half of U.S.

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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. A study by Alessi, et al.

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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. Expect more on this in 2014. Will it happen in 2014? At long last, the Fed has finally started to taper. Here we are. It is a critical issue.

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