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Greece Will Default in May Without Another Bailout or Change in Terms

MishTalk

Cash flow analysis shows Greece is in serious trouble again in spite of having a current account surplus. Greece Bailout Cash Flow Even this game is in trouble now as Greek Cash Flow Charts show. The total payments due in 2014 are €31.6bn. I use the words "will default" imprecisely. It didn’t.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business

output comes from fracking operations that have cut costs dramatically since slumping prices in 2014 forced dozens of companies into bankruptcy. In fact, 2018 may mark the first year shale producers will be able to fund future expansions of drilling programs through their own cash flow. The soaring U.S.

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Time to Short the US Dollar? Go Long Commodities?

MishTalk

The headline call was and remains that Germany will be close to recession by Q4-2014 or Q1-2015 setting up a desperate ECB and a Europe once again close to zero growth instead of the “escape velocity” everyone and their dog promised you and me in December and January. The US average GDP the last five years has been 2.0%.

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Interest Rates Lower; Business Prices Higher

Martinka Consulting

June 2014 , Mergers & Acquisitions magazine has an article titled “Loosening Up” that discusses how intense competition has forced lenders to be more aggressive on pricing (lower) and have covenant-lite loans. or 4, times cash flow” won’t get the deal when the bank will lend that amount or more. (As

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How U.S. Hospitals and Health Systems Can Reverse Their Sliding Financial Performance

Harvard Business

The root cause is twofold: a mismatch between organizations’ strategies and actual market demand, and a lack of operational discipline. To be financially sustainable, hospitals and health systems must revamp their strategies and insist that their investments in new payment models and physician employees generate solid returns.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business

Among the firms we identified as focused on the long term, average revenue and earnings growth were 47% and 36% higher, respectively, by 2014, and market capitalization grew faster as well. Our belief is that the earnings of long-term companies will rely less on accounting decisions and more on underlying cash flow than other companies.

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"Stock Market Is Overvalued By 100%" Says John Hussman in Chris Martenson Interview; Financial Repression Revisited

MishTalk

A stock, in fact any security, is a claim on any long-term stream of cash flows that investors can expect to be delivered to them over a very long period of time. It''s essentially the effective life of a security over which you are collecting cash flows in return for the amount you pay.