Tom Spencer

JULY 25, 2021

For example, Amazon earned only modest profits from 2004 to 2015, choosing instead to focus on increasing market share and developing new products. Corporate finance academics argue that firms should act to maximise shareholder value, since shareholders are the owners of the firm. This may not be the same as maximising profits.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

In response to Janet Yellen’s everything is OK speech following today’s balance sheet reduction notice by the FOMC committee, I received an interesting set of comments from Pater Tenebrarum at the Acting Man Blog regarding rate hike cycles, gold, and stock market peaks.

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MishTalk

JULY 16, 2014

Rather than repairing its balance sheet by reducing debt, the U.S. Implications for 2014-2015 In previous letters we have shown that the largest economies in the world have a higher total debt to GDP today than at the time of the Great Recession in 2008. economy is starting to increase its leverage. Total debt rose to 349.3%

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 26, 2014

The fact that rates were cut, even though many reformers within the administration were very much opposed, exemplifies the challenges that Beijing will face in 2015. We are going to see this argument replayed many times in 2015. in November, completing nearly three years of monthly declines.

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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

A possible explanation for the SEP’s prediction of a rapid catch-up to potential GDP after 2009 is that participants overestimated the efficacy of monetary policy in the aftermath of a so-called balance-sheet recession. Here are the readings for 2015. Month/Year Current Conditions Expected Conditions 1/2015 7.78

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

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. Data of the balance of Payments have been published until August 2015.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

It breeds indifference, which in turn breeds a yawning gap between underwriters, whose balance sheets absorb risk (the risk takers), and customers, whose enterprises create risks (the risk makers). In 2015 these top three players generated 48% of the revenues among the top 50 brokers in the U.S.

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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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MishTalk

OCTOBER 16, 2015

However, in Hoisington's Third Quarter 2015 Review , economist Lacy Hunt makes the claim the Fed cannot print money. The Fed may try to offset such currency drains, but this would only be achievable by further expanding the Fed’s already massive balance sheet. Let's take a look, emphasis mine.

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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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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Energy-efficient lighting, motors, and other hardware continue to make good sense for many firms, whether financed on the balance sheet or by third parties who provide the upfront capital and then share the savings on future power bills. What can today’s non-energy CEOs do to prepare their firms for a prosumer future?

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MishTalk

JULY 10, 2013

percent for 2015. All participants saw the appropriate target for the federal funds rate at the end of 2015 as still well below their assessments of its expected longer-run value. Participants also described their views regarding the appropriate path of the Federal Reserves balance sheet. percent at the end of 2015.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 8, 2015

If China isn't going to expand its balance sheet anymore, that means it has to stop buying treasuries. When China stops expanding its balance sheet, that also means that the Chinese currency is going to appreciate, and China said it will allow that appreciation to happen. Now what does that mean?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

In 2015, Global Trade Alert, an independent trade-monitoring group, cited at least 644 discriminatory trade measures imposed by the G20 economies with the U.S. Meanwhile the Institute of International Finance forecasted net capital flows for emerging markets in 2015 would be negative for the first time since 1988. at the forefront.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

In July of 2015, CNN Money proclaimed Why you need to own the Four Horsemen of Tech. There are 500 companies* in the S&P 500, but 2015 has been a year for the top 1%. in 2015, and Wal-Mart, down 33% and suffering through its worst year in stock performance terms since 1973. Goldman's chief U.S.

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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. In a 2015 report entitled “The Happiness Study” from Blackhawk Engagement Solutions, respondents ranked their jobs eighth out of a list of 12 contributors to overall happiness.

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MishTalk

APRIL 6, 2015

In relatively dovish remarks to a business audience in Newark, New Jersey, Dudley did not repeat his refrain that a rate hike could reasonably be expected to come by mid-2015. percentage point from overall 2015 growth, he added. He''s signaling the Fed will likely be able to raise interest rates in 2015.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 In 2015 the 10 largest shareholders in a typical S&P 500 company held almost half of the company’s stock.) During Immelt’s tenure, GE’s stock market value fell by about half. Its stock is trading where it was 20 years ago. of the company.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2018

.—while still a net importer of oil—is now selling millions of barrels of oil to China, Britain, Mexico, and India, a new reality made possible when restrictions on crude oil exports were lifted in 2015. Most major producers with large balance sheets will likely hedge their bets and attempt both. The soaring U.S.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

China’s four largest banks have quadrupled the share of foreign assets on their balance sheets since 2007 to $1 trillion—that make gives them larger foreign portfolios than German or Italian banks. China has risen from 16th place in 2005 to 8th in 2015. But developing economies are rising up the rankings.

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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. The consumer is poised to do well in early 2015.

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