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

Harvard Business

Most major producers with large balance sheets will likely hedge their bets and attempt both. These trends will require oil producers to shift their focus away from transportation and diversify towards innovative petrochemical products to capture market share in diverse end uses such as clothing and construction materials.

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Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

Harvard Business

Bain & Company’s Macro Trends Group carefully analyzed the global balance sheet and found that the world is awash in money. Global capital balances more than doubled between 1990 and 2010 — from $220 trillion (about 6.5 Yet the same crisis ushered in a new age of capital superabundance. times global GDP).

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BIS Slams the Fed; Ridiculous Question of the Day: "Is The Fed Going To Attempt A Controlled Collapse?"

MishTalk

Historical evidence shows that this rarely happens following a balance sheet recession. The drop in construction spending is a necessary correction of previous overinvestment and is unlikely to be entirely reversed. In crisis-hit countries, it is unrealistic to expect the level of output to return to its pre-crisis trend.

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One Track Minds Means Inefficiency

Martinka Consulting

The sub-headline was about how transportation officials see obstacles, mainly all the existing construction downtown. From bidding (his expertise), to sales (he was good once it got to the technical part), and accounting (of which he knew almost nothing, especially regarding the balance sheet). we need bike lanes).

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Economic Illusions vs. Reality; Helicopter Drop, What Else?

MishTalk

This is because part of the effect has been by bringing forward demand from the future, such as major purchases, including for cars or construction. The balance sheet of the Swiss National Bank has expanded even more impressively, again with no discernable impact on the inflation rate. This is more than an academic curiosity.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business

But most successful companies used electricity and motors to reinvent their existing businesses, whether in manufacturing, transportation, or construction. For most companies intellectual property is something that sits on their balance sheet. Intellectual capital.

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Austria "Bad Bank" Goes Bad, $8.5 Billion "Bail-In" Underway

MishTalk

Today we see yet another failure of the construct. The step, allowed by new legislation that gives banking supervisors more power to intervene, followed an outside audit of Heta''s balance sheet that exposed a capital hole of up to 7.6 billion euros ($8.51 billion) which the government was not prepared to fill, the FMA said.

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