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Would a Bund by any other name smell as sweet?

Tom Spencer

Germany is one of the most financially stable countries in the Euro-zone, so its failure to sell all of its Bunds is worth examining. Thirdly, European banks are currently focused on building their balance sheets not on lending. While Bunds may still smell sweet, weak financial markets in Europe are a cause for concern.

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Greek default in all but name - Tom Spencer consulting blog

Tom Spencer

European leaders are now using the same brand of financial wizardry which created the global financial crisis in the first place. Characterising the writedown of Greek debt as “private sector involvement” is more of the same financial manipulation, but it is also shrewd politics. Case Interviews.

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Coronavirus & Consulting Offers

Tom Spencer

The UK has 3,500 known cases of the virus and London will probably be shut down in the next week, if not before. Top consulting firms have hundreds of current consultants either sitting idle or working a limited case load. During the dotcom bubble, the financial crisis, and the real estate bubble, what did consulting firms do?

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Rising COVID cases, falling economy

Tom Spencer

Since the start of February this year, the Fed has expanded its balance sheet by more than $2.4 To put that in context, the Fed was created in 1913, and its total balance sheet assets only reached $2.4 trillion in assets, but only 2 months to achieve the same amount of balance sheet expansion this year.

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M&A deals – benefits and drawbacks

Tom Spencer

Many consulting, corporate strategy, and corporate development roles require the interviewee to go through an M&A case study. Depending on the firm and specific role this case could be very strategic and operational like doing a market entry/growth-type case or very technical (i.e. Potential Drawbacks.

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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business

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. We taught journalists how to interview entrepreneurs and elicit their stories of growth. 4 – Building local capacity and getting out.

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Shockingly Bad Fiscal Health of Chicago (and the Financial Engineering Chicago Uses to Hide that Fact)

MishTalk

Kristi Culpepper, a bond guru, has gone over Chicago''s annual financial report, bond documents, investor presentations, and CAFRs. trillion muni market had puzzled at the true identity of Bond Girl, Hector Negroni, co-founder of New York-based investing firm Fundamental Credit Opportunities, said in a telephone interview. “